# Majority Leader

> Majority Leader is mapped as the chamber: it translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight.

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

## Concrete anchor

Majority Leader 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

Majority Leader translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight, 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 Majority Leader, 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.** Majority Leader is mapped as the chamber: it translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight.

## Gift

allows collective decisions to become governable commitments; through Majority Leader, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

concentrates agenda control and hides bargaining inside procedure; Majority Leader 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 Majority Leader 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 Majority Leader. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Majority Leader becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

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

## Relationships

- **institutionalizes — Speaker:** Speaker institutionalizes Majority Leader by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Minority Leader:** Majority Leader counteracts Minority Leader by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Audre Lorde:** Majority Leader institutionalizes Audre Lorde by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Worker Cooperative:** Worker Cooperative depends on Majority Leader by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Majority Leader from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Majority Leader 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 Majority Leader: 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`.
