Systems Atlas Project
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Legal
legal
Justification
What has been written down.
Six fields are required of every node. Empty ones are shown as declared gaps — a gap means nothing has been written, not that there is nothing to write.
Definition
CommentInstitutionalised rule systems - sources of law, adjudication structures and enforcement mechanisms - that define rights and obligations and create binding decisions backed by legitimate authority.
Inclusion
Comment- lawmaking sources such as statutes, delegated regulation and jurisprudence
- adjudication institutions and compliance processes
- legal enforcement mechanisms including sanctions, penalties and remedies
- rights and obligations frameworks where legally constituted
Exclusion
CommentSources
CommentDeclared gap No sources have been cited.
Boundary cases
Comment- Constitutional checks are simultaneously legal institutions and political constraints. Currently assigned by whether the question is about rule validity or about the allocation of authority.
Uncertainty
Comment- Resolving this boundary by the analyst's question makes placement depend on who is asking rather than on the entity. That is what lenses are for, and using them to settle structural placement may be a category error.
The whole domain
14 nodes, every level of the descent.
The full descent below this domain. A node that divides opens to show its parts; a node that does not is a link and nothing more. Every entry is a page, and a page existing says nothing about whether anything has been written on it.
LegalL03 components
Legal norm structuresL15 components
Adjudication structuresL13 components
Enforcement structuresL12 components
Rules
Whether this division survives the six rules.
Rules 1, 5 and 6 are checked by the validator and reported here. Rules 2, 3 and 4 are judgements about meaning and cannot be automated — no state is claimed for them. The rules themselves are set out in the method.
At most seven
Divides into 3 components.
Mutually exclusive
A judgement about whether the parts overlap. Not automated.
Collectively exhaustive
A judgement about what the parts leave out. Not automated.
Equal abstraction
A judgement about whether the parts answer the same question type. Not automated.
Decomposable or terminal
Divides into 3 parts.
Justified in writing
5 of the six fields carry content. The rest are declared gaps.
Proposals
What has been argued about this node.
Nothing has been decided against this node. That is not the same as nothing being wrong with it.
Discussion
What has been said about this node.
Nothing published on this node yet.