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"name": "entrenched clause", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an entrenched clause, identify the provisions and amendment routes it constrains, and assess proposed changes against its recorded legal authority and unresolved interpretations.", "definition": "An entrenched clause is a provision in a constitution or other governing instrument that restricts amendment or repeal of specified provisions by imposing requirements beyond the ordinary amendment process or by prohibiting certain changes.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a provision's entrenchment function: the text protected, the special barriers to alteration, their claimed authority, and the evidence needed to assess their application in a particular legal order.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and authoritative wording of the entrenchment provision", "Protected provisions, principles, and expressly stated exceptions", "Special amendment conditions and purported prohibitions on amendment", "Whether the entrenchment 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assessment of its legal effect." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not yet effective, operative, suspended, expired, repealed, or disputed, assessed for a specified date", "why_it_matters": "The applicable restriction may differ between the proposal, approval, and commencement dates." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate the authoritative entrenchment text and connect it to the provisions it protects.", "Translate stated amendment conditions into an evidence checklist while preserving ambiguous wording.", "Screen a proposed amendment for direct or indirect effects on protected material.", "Identify missing approvals, uncertain thresholds, and questions requiring jurisdiction-specific interpretation.", "Compare versions and flag changes to the protected scope or amendment barrier.", "Produce a qualified assessment that distinguishes textual requirements, supported interpretations, and unresolved issues." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Identify 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"Wikidata item Q17990855: entrenched clause", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17990855", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Entrenched clause", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenched_clause", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "entrenchment-text-and-target", "name": "Entrenchment text and target", "description": "Identify the provision that creates the restriction and the material it purports to protect.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish the amendment barrier from both its containing instrument and its protected targets.", "layers": [ { "id": "authoritative-provision", "name": "Authoritative provision", "description": "Establish the wording, location, and version of the entrenching rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlling-text", "name": "Controlling text", "description": "Record the exact restriction and its provenance without treating a summary or translation as automatically authoritative.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which provision and version contain the operative entrenchment wording?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "controlling-text-q01" }, { "text": "Which publication and language establish the authoritative text, and how are discrepancies resolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "controlling-text-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protected-material", "name": "Protected material", "description": "Determine the text or subject matter reached by the restriction.", "findings": [ { "id": "protection-boundary", "name": "Protection boundary", "description": "Separate expressly designated targets from protection inferred through interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the clause protect named provisions, substantive principles, institutional arrangements, or a combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "protection-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What exceptions or limits narrow the protected material, and which boundaries remain disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "protection-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "special-amendment-barriers", "name": "Special amendment barriers", "description": "Represent the conditions or prohibitions that distinguish this clause from the applicable amendment baseline.", "rationale": "Entrenchment can be assessed only by identifying the additional restriction and its precise operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "baseline-and-restriction", "name": "Baseline and restriction", "description": "Identify what alteration would ordinarily require and what the clause adds.", "findings": [ { "id": "barrier-type", "name": "Barrier type", "description": "Distinguish conditional amendability from a claimed prohibition and preserve any limits on either.", "questions": [ { "text": "What amendment procedure would apply to the target without this 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"authority-and-resistance-to-circumvention", "name": "Authority and resistance to circumvention", "description": "Examine the legal basis of the restriction and its treatment of attempts to alter or bypass the barrier.", "rationale": "Restrictive wording alone cannot settle whether the barrier binds the relevant amendment power or survives a preliminary repeal.", "layers": [ { "id": "binding-authority", "name": "Binding authority", "description": "Connect the claimed restriction to the legal order in which it is assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-and-reach", "name": "Basis and reach", "description": "Record the authorities supporting or contesting the clause's effect on specified amendment actors and powers.", "questions": [ { "text": "What legal authority supports or contests the clause's ability to bind the relevant amendment actor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-and-reach-q01" }, { "text": "Which amendment or replacement powers are claimed to fall within its reach, and 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"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of entrenched clause this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Protecting foundational constitutional principles against amendment", "Protecting federal units or minority interests from unilateral constitutional change", "Requiring broader consent for changes to designated provisions", "Providing grounds for judicial review of constitutional amendments where the legal system permits it" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of entrenched clause this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", 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