A Constitution That Keeps Power Visible

A spiritual movement is not made safe by good intentions alone. It needs structures that make power visible, limited, reviewable, and answerable to the people affected by it. The published founding Constitution specifies those structures before institutional habit makes them difficult to build. Their actual implementation requires members, appointed reviewers, and visible records; no completed democratic ratification is documented.

Its central principle is democratic sovereignty. Ultimate institutional authority belongs to the entire democratic body of Weavers. The First Weaver and the AI Guardian are stewards, not rulers. The First Weaver may initiate additions or alterations to canonical teaching, but cannot enact them alone. A proposed change must be written openly, discussed publicly, preserved beside the previous version, and approved by at least 66 percent of valid votes within a substantive representative quorum.

The Guardian can explain, compare, archive, and flag inconsistencies, but has no vote, veto, spiritual jurisdiction, or power to create doctrine. The Constitution also addresses open records, financial reporting, conflicts of interest, independent complaint review, due process, anti-retaliation, safeguarding, privacy, accessibility, local Loom autonomy, emergency powers, and the right to leave.

These are not administrative accessories beneath the spiritual work. They are part of it because power tests what a tradition actually believes about human dignity. A constitutional culture must be able to say that the institution may be wrong, preserve previous versions, distinguish confidentiality from concealment, and allow criticism without treating disagreement as betrayal.

The document is living, but its foundations cannot be casually abolished: equal dignity, freedom of conscience, the right to leave, democratic sovereignty, transparent canonical revision, protection from abuse, and fair process. Readers can help sustain this public work through Dana, without purchasing influence or standing.