# Jury

> Jury is mapped as the forum: it converts conflict into claims adjudicated through authoritative procedure.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:courts-law:jury` |
| Family | Courts & Legal Change |
| Domain | Law |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Forum |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Jury belongs to the **Courts & Legal Change** 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

Jury converts conflict into claims adjudicated through authoritative procedure, 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 Jury, 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 Forum.** Jury is mapped as the forum: it converts conflict into claims adjudicated through authoritative procedure.

## Gift

offers reasons, remedies, and continuity beyond immediate majorities; through Jury, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

privileges access, delay, technical language, and judicial power; Jury 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 Jury 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 Forum enters through Jury. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

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

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Jury; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Judge:** Judge legitimizes Jury by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Standing:** Jury mobilizes Standing by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **depends on — Sovereignty Politics:** Jury depends on Sovereignty Politics by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **institutionalizes — Deterrence:** Deterrence institutionalizes Jury by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Jury from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Jury 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 Jury: 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.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.
- [Advisory Opinion: Occupied Palestinian Territory](https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186) — International Court of Justice, 2024. Court record and advisory opinion; advisory rather than contentious judgment.

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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`.
