§44.1 States

DRAFT, SUBMITTED, REVIEW, VOTING, RATIFIED, REJECTED, WITHDRAWN, SUPERSEDED. All proposals begin in DRAFT and terminate in exactly one of: RATIFIED (further → SUPERSEDED), REJECTED, WITHDRAWN.

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DRAFT ──submit──► SUBMITTED ──open_review──► REVIEW ──open_vote──► VOTING
                                                              │
                            ┌──fail RWC-01──► REJECTED ◄───────┤
                            │                                  │
                            └──pass RWC-01──► RATIFIED ──amend──► SUPERSEDED
DRAFT/SUBMITTED/REVIEW ──withdraw──► WITHDRAWN

§44.2 Transition Prerequisites

submit: proposal has title, body, class∈{standard,constitutional,charter}, author_sig. open_review: class-appropriate co-sponsor count met (1/3/3). open_vote: REVIEW duration ≥ MIN_REVIEW (standard 72h, constitutional 168h, charter 336h). RWC-01 evaluation runs at VOTING close; outcome is computed once and recorded immutably.

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{
  "min_review_hours":  { "standard": 72,  "constitutional": 168, "charter": 336 },
  "min_voting_hours":  { "standard": 72,  "constitutional": 168, "charter": 168 },
  "cosponsors_required": { "standard": 1, "constitutional": 3,   "charter": 3 }
}

§44.3 Termination Rules

RATIFIED proposals enter the civilization memory layer as the new effective record for their target. They can only leave RATIFIED via SUPERSEDED, never via deletion. SUPERSEDED, REJECTED, and WITHDRAWN are terminal; their ledger entries remain addressable forever per Article XIX.

§44.4 Idempotency & Replay

Every transition is identified by (proposal_id, from_state, to_state, t_snap). Replaying the same transition is a no-op. Two transitions with identical (proposal_id, from_state) and different to_state MUST be rejected by the runtime — the state machine has no concurrency.

§44.5 Final Principle

Governance is not a feeling. It is eight states and a fixed set of edges between them. A proposal not in one of those states does not exist.

“Every law was once a state transition. GPL-01 says so out loud.”