// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
= Constitutional Change Procedure

. Open a proposal identifying authority affected, rationale, alternatives, compatibility, evidence status, and tensions.
. Provide both human-readable and machine-readable impact where applicable.
. Obtain review from the named constitutional authority and affected domain maintainers.
. Allow a meaningful contest period and answer recorded challenges.
. Record the decision, dissent, effective version/hash, superseded material, and migration/rollback limits.
. Regenerate derived registries; validate; prove deterministic regeneration; merge only after authorised review.

Emergency containment may precede this process under an ANCHOR, but permanent policy may not. Editorial corrections that cannot change meaning may use a lighter review; any dispute about meaning requires the full process.
