Ratification Record

This section is the drafting archive behind the civilization’s ratification record. It holds proposals that were drafted, adversarially reviewed and carried to a decision, with the briefs published alongside each. Outcomes are not decided in advance. A failed vote is a legitimate output and a boundary marker under standing doctrine (LP-062 / LP-065). As an archive of authorship, it keeps the interventions made during drafting and their withdrawal. 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. Its authored evidence activated nothing. The later LP-074 conditional successor was a separate enactment. Its 2294 Path 2 audit passed Findings I–IV and certified Schedules A and B independently, and the complete cascade took effect in 2295.

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

Drafting note. During the v22.0–v22.1 interval, on an authorial override of the failed chamber result, the reduced schedule was written into the law register as an enacted statute under the drafting designation LP-074. 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 The override was withdrawn at v22.1, and both entries were deregistered at v22.2.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 was deregistered because it described an enactment that never occurred in world. The second was deregistered because its principle belongs in doctrine and not in the register. Both texts are preserved verbatim at the deregistered statutes of record, and the session record sets out the full sequence. 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, independent of any petition vote. Its estimates supersede the ballot’s authored values as they land (petition v4.1 §7(e)). Under the Trajectory Doctrine, the audit comes first and is the gate for any reduction. A failed reduction may be sought again through a new petition line (never a resubmission of the closed one) once the controlling estimate lands, on audited facts and at the standard zero-fail threshold. A genuine ratification would have to answer the questions below. 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 before the numbers exist and are never fitted to them.
• Symmetric revision — estimates move up or down on the evidence, with no directional bias.
• Published uncertainty — every controlling figure is published with its uncertainty band.
• Predetermined controlling-estimate rule — the rule for which estimate governs is settled before the values are seen.

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 affirmative case relies on this bound to answer the concentration objection.
• (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.

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