# Due Process

> Due Process is mapped as the frame: it places durable rules above ordinary political competition.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:constitutional-order:due-process` |
| Family | Constitutional Order |
| Domain | Governance |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Frame |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Due Process belongs to the **Constitutional Order** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Due Process places durable rules above ordinary political competition, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Due Process, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Frame.** Due Process is mapped as the frame: it places durable rules above ordinary political competition.

## Gift

constrains arbitrary power and enables legitimate self-change; through Due Process, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

lets inherited rules entrench exclusion or block adaptation; Due Process can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Due Process to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Frame enters through Due Process. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Due Process becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Due Process; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **translates into — Bill of Rights:** Bill of Rights translates into Due Process by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Equal Protection:** Due Process enables Equal Protection by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **constrains — Death Squad:** Due Process constrains Death Squad by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Rent Seeking:** Rent Seeking enables Due Process by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Due Process from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Due Process is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Due Process: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Constitution of the United States](https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript) — National Archives, 1787. Federal structure, separated powers, amendment, elections, and rights.
- [The Federalist Papers](https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text) — Library of Congress, 1787–1788. Arguments for the U.S. constitutional design; read as advocacy, not neutral description.
- [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights) — United Nations, 1948. International human-rights framework.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
