Process Record · Drafting Archive
Deregistered Statutes of Record — Drafting Designations 074 / 075
Two statute texts drafted, numbered, and carried in the process record during the v22.0–v22.1 interval, then deregistered at canon v22.2. They are preserved here verbatim. Neither is the later in-world LP-074 or LP-075.
Both texts are reproduced verbatim as engraved — not corrected, not summarized, not softened. Cross-references inside them resolve to their live targets where those still exist; the words are unchanged. The one-line history above each text is authored for this archive and is not part of the statute.
The register’s LP-074 is RATIFY-TAX-50-II, and its LP-075 is the Path 2 Commencement Duty Act; these similarly numbered texts are drafting history under the layer doctrine (R13).
Drafting designation LP-074 (process record — never registered in-world)
☒ Deregistered Statute · Process Record
Status history — drafted and enacted in the process record (canon v22.0) → affirmed 3–2 on advocacy review, short of the zero-fail threshold → vacated (canon v22.1) → deregistered (R13, canon v22.2), as describing an enactment that did not occur in world. A drafting designation only: the register never carried it, and at R15 (canon v22.4) the register’s LP-074 issued to RATIFY-TAX-50-II.
Statute text — verbatim as engraved at v22.0
§1 The engraved schedule is 50% / 25% / 12.5% / 6.25% top marginal above $10,000,000 annually, layer-mapped as before. The threshold, unchanged since its introduction (LP-072), is retained deliberately. §2 Disclosure of record, permanent: the synthetic gauntlet returned 1–4 FAIL (Meritboard −21, Court −13, Sanctuary −5, Main +3, Lower −11; margins authored per LP-041-style disclosure). The founder overrode to PASS on worldbuilding grounds (R10). The opposition brief publishes alongside this statute in perpetuity. §3 — Trajectory Principle (standing law): top marginal rates track institutional need, not posture. Taxation’s three founding functions — revenue, anti-concentration, and trust — each retire as automation revenue, structural anti-concentration instruments, and verified institutional track record respectively mature. Rates ratchet down as functions demonstrably retire. §4 — Gate: every future reduction under §3 requires audited evidence per the Path 2 standing audit — never authored facts. Where authored facts ground a reduction (as here), the Path 2 controlling estimate supersedes them (petition v4.1 §7(e)) and the cadence rider binds review. §5 — Precedent recorded: the civilization executed §3 once before this statute existed — v14.5, on SCM transfer grounds. This law codifies demonstrated constitutional behavior; it does not invent it.
Annotation — appended at v22.1, statute text above unaltered
Annotation — vacatur (appended v22.1, statute text above unaltered): VACATED, R12: the enacting override (R10) was withdrawn by its author. Schedule reverted to LP-073. Re-ratification available under LP-075 §2 upon the Path 2 controlling estimate — audited facts, zero-fail threshold, no override.
Drafting designation LP-075 (process record — never registered in-world)
☒ Deregistered Statute · Process Record
Status history — enacted 5–0 in the process record (canon v22.1) → folded into whitepaper doctrine as the Trajectory Doctrine (R13, canon v22.2) and deregistered as a numbered statute. The principle survives in world at Whitepaper §12.1. At R15, 075 was still available to a future law; in 2291 it issued in world to the separate Path 2 Commencement Duty Act. That later issuance has no retroactive force and does not validate this drafting designation.
Statute text — verbatim as engraved at v22.1
§1. PRINCIPLE (standing law): top marginal rates track institutional need, not posture. Taxation’s three founding functions — revenue, anti-concentration, and trust — each retire as automation revenue, structural anti-concentration instruments, and verified institutional track record respectively mature. Rates ratchet down as functions demonstrably retire. §2. GATE: every rate reduction under §1 requires audited evidence per the Path 2 standing audit — never authored facts. A vacated or failed reduction may be re-petitioned when the Path 2 controlling estimate lands; it faces the standard zero-fail threshold with no override channel. §3. PRECEDENT: the civilization has executed §1 once on structural evidence (LP-073, v14.5, SCM function-transfer) and once attempted it on authored facts (LP-074, enacted by override, affirmed short at 3–2, vacated by withdrawal of the override, R12). Both are record. This statute codifies the demonstrated behavior of both outcomes: rates fall when shown, and hold when merely told.
Why these two left the register
The register is world canon: it carries what the civilization's own institutions decided. LP-074 recorded an enactment that, in world, never happened — the petition it engraved failed its gauntlet 1–4 and was affirmed only to 3–2 on advocacy review, short of the zero-fail threshold at both adjudications. A register entry asserting it was law would be the drafting process leaking into the world's record. It is deregistered for that reason and for no other: not because the text was wrong, but because the register was the wrong tier for it.
The drafting-designation LP-075 has the opposite problem and the same fix. Its principle was never in doubt — the chambers endorsed the direction 5–0 even as they refused the magnitude attached to it. But it was drafted as a statute about a statute, its provenance chained to a vacatur that is itself process history. Standing on its own it is not a petition outcome at all; it is doctrine. It folds into the whitepaper as the Trajectory Doctrine, where in-world provenance reads plainly: endorsed 5–0 across the ratification chambers. This must not be confused with the later official LP-075, which imposed only a prospective Path 2 commencement duty.
Nothing here is erased. The interval in which these texts sat in the register is preserved in the drafting archive, the briefs that argued them publish in perpetuity, and every commit that engraved them stands. A civilization that quietly deleted its drafts would be claiming a straighter line than it walked — but a civilization that filed its drafts as law would be claiming a history it did not have. The archive keeps both honest by keeping them apart.