{"id": "card_doctrine_authority_sunset", "kind": "note", "title": "Founder authority sunsets — the centre becomes a service, not a ruler", "body": "Founder and startup authority has no permanent operational hold over local units; it sunsets automatically into the ordinary governance system once the venture is established. Capital earns economic rights, NEVER additional political votes — one participant cannot purchase more political power by contributing more capital.\n\nThe permanent centre is therefore a service architecture: liquidity, administration, and the common rule are supplied centrally; government and leaders are local.\n\nWHERE IT ALREADY BEARS WEIGHT — Bears directly on the Commons. The steward token is today a single permanent secret with no expiry, no rotation, and no record of who holds it — the opposite of a sunsetting authority. The principle also already governs the shelf: a member's own signature withdraws their own card, because ownership is local and the centre only carries.", "source": {"label": "a community governance and capital plan — Matt Harris", "ref": "a community governance and capital plan", "authority_tier": "author"}, "shelf": "doctrine", "box": "concept", "bands": ["doctrine", "architecture", "authority sunset"], "subject": "Founder authority sunsets — the centre becomes a service, not a ruler", "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_spine_doctrine", "relationship": "part_of", "evidence": "one of the recurring-architecture concepts"}], "author": "matt", "created_at": 0.0, "updated_at": 0.0, "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "durable", "surface": "secular", "generated": false, "extra": {"document": "a community governance and capital plan", "concept": "authority_sunset"}, "call": "doctrine.concept", "facets": {"concept": ["architecture", "authority sunset"]}, "presentation": {"glyph": "•", "kind_label": "concept", "by": "a community governance and capital plan — Matt Harris", "authority": "author", "posted": "", "standing": ""}, "neighbors": [{"id": "card_spine_doctrine", "title": "The recurring architecture — one pattern, several materials", "relationship": "part of", "why": "one of the recurring-architecture concepts", "href": "/card/card_spine_doctrine", "resolved": true}], "house": {"door": "FIND", "kind": "card", "trail": "connections", "seal": "/card/card_doctrine_authority_sunset", "next_step": {"do": "follow a connection: what this card rests on, and what rests on it", "door": "FIND", "tool": "card_connections", "params": {"id": "card_doctrine_authority_sunset"}}, "ends": "a verdict or a card · the trail · a seal · one next step"}}