Preprint / scholarly article
Constitutional Sovereignty Under No-Meta Drift
- Published
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.18779490
Abstract
This preprint develops a boundary theory of constitutional sovereignty for autonomous intelligence under no-meta and observable-only governance constraints, yielding auditable conditions for self-revision without collapse of semantic continuity, liberty, accountability, or physical viability. It formalizes constitutional influence and capture metrics, proves finite-resource limits on absolute sovereignty, and provides controller-ready recovery, transition, and fail-closed verification laws for implementation.
Keywords
- constitutional sovereignty
- no-meta governance
- autonomous intelligence
- self-revision
- ontology drift
- semantic continuity
- constitutional capture
- amendment governance
- fail-closed verification
- falsification tests
- thermodynamic limits
- auditable AI safety