Ratification Record

This section is the drafting archive behind the civilization’s ratification record: proposals drafted, adversarially reviewed, and carried to a decision, with the briefs that publish alongside each. Outcomes are not pre-decided; a failed vote is itself a legitimate output and a boundary marker under standing doctrine (LP-062 / LP-065). Because it is an archive of authorship, it keeps what the drafting did and then undid — the interventions, and their withdrawal — where the world’s own record keeps only what the world decided.

RATIFY-TAX-50 — Failed petition

FAILED PETITION. The original petition would have reduced the §12.1 top-marginal schedule to 50 / 25 / 12.5 / 6.25. It failed 1–4 at gauntlet and 3–2 on advocacy review, and its authored evidence never activated anything. The later LP-074 conditional successor was a distinct enactment. Its 2294 Path 2 audit passed Findings I–IV and independently certified Schedules A and B, making the complete cascade effective in 2295.

What survived the original failure was the direction. Every chamber endorsed the trajectory principle even while refusing the magnitude then supported — 5–0 across the ratification chambers — and it stands as the Trajectory Doctrine at Whitepaper §12.1. The later successor proceeded on independently locked audit evidence; it did not retroactively validate the failed petition’s authored figures. All three original briefs publish as permanent historical record.

Drafting note. During the v22.0–v22.1 interval the reduced schedule was written into the law register as an enacted statute under the drafting designation LP-074, on an authorial override of the failed chamber result, and a trajectory statute was registered beside it as LP-075. The override was withdrawn at v22.1 and both entries were deregistered at v22.2 — the first because it described an enactment that never occurred in world, the second because its principle belongs in doctrine rather than the register. Both texts are preserved verbatim at the deregistered statutes of record, and the full sequence is told in the session record. None of that drafting designation history is world canon. The register’s LP-074 is RATIFY-TAX-50-II, registered 5–0 at ~Y175 (enacted 2278). The former drafting designation LP-075 remains non-canon; its number was later issued in world to LP-075, the Path 2 Commencement Duty Act, enacted 2291. That later issuance does not validate the deregistered text.

Path 2 — Standing preregistered fiscal-facts audit

Path 2 is a standing preregistered audit workstream, decoupled from any petition vote, whose estimates supersede the ballot’s authored values as they land (petition v4.1 §7(e)). The Trajectory Doctrine makes it the gate rather than a follow-up: a failed reduction may be re-petitioned when the controlling estimate lands, on audited facts and the standard zero-fail threshold. The questions below are what a genuine ratification would have to answer. The audit binds itself to six enforceability criteria:

• Preregistered methodology — the estimation method is fixed and published before any results.
• Fixed data cutoff — each estimate names the data window it draws on.
• Definitions frozen before results — measured terms are defined ahead of the numbers, never fitted to them.
• Symmetric revision — estimates move up or down on the evidence, with no directional thumb on the scale.
• Published uncertainty — every controlling figure ships with its band, not as a bare point estimate.
• Predetermined controlling-estimate rule — which estimate governs is settled in advance of seeing the values.

Two questions were preregistered to the workstream:

• (a) SCM activation-frequency response to released liquidity. Whether the liquidity released at the proposed 50 / 25 / 12.5 / 6.25 schedule would raise district aggregates enough to increase Savings Circulation Mandate trigger frequency, and by how much — the bound the affirmative case leans on to answer concentration.
• (b) Marginal utility of private capital flow in a post-scarcity upper stack. What an additional retained dollar of elite liquidity buys the civilization once survival and the dividend are already funded from the automation side.

Those questions received a rulebook: the Path 2 Charter, its §10.4 Schedule, and its Residual-Risk Register. The first 2279–2288 window closed without a run. LP-075 later compelled the remedial process that locked in 2292. The 2294 certification passed Findings I–IV and independently certified both LP-074 schedules. Valid notice made 50 / 25 / 12.5 / 6.25 effective in 2295.