# Filibuster

> minority power embedded inside legislative procedure

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:executive-legislative:filibuster` |
| Family | Executive & Legislative Power |
| Domain | Governance |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Chamber |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Filibuster belongs to the **Executive & Legislative Power** 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

Delay and supermajority closure rules can require a larger coalition than a simple majority to end debate or advance action.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Filibuster, 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 Chamber.** minority power embedded inside legislative procedure

## Gift

Time for deliberation and minority leverage.

## Wound / Shadow

Entrenchment through procedural veto.

## Conditions

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

## Strategic meaning

Use Filibuster 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 Chamber enters through Filibuster. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** When does protection from majority haste become rule by obstruction?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Filibuster; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **constrains — Pocket Veto:** Pocket Veto constrains Filibuster by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **legitimizes — Cloture:** Filibuster legitimizes Cloture by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Political Violence:** Political Violence mobilizes Filibuster by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Picket Line:** Filibuster constrains Picket Line by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **distributes costs to — National Rebirth:** National Rebirth distributes costs to Filibuster by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Filibuster from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Filibuster 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 Filibuster: 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.
- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.

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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`.
