Commons constitution skeleton

100 Burger a Day Commons — Constitutional Skeleton v0.1

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Article 1 — Purpose

Maintain an open, testable operating protocol that supports independent local 100 Burger a Day-compatible businesses and upstream production nodes.

Article 2 — Non-ownership

The Commons acquires no automatic ownership in member restaurants, farms, processors or supply nodes.

Article 3 — Direct relationships

Members may contract directly. The Commons may assist discovery and coordination but may not require itself to remain in every transaction.

Article 4 — No compulsory transaction toll

The Commons shall not fund itself through an unavoidable permanent percentage of member transactions as the default model.

Article 5 — Fork and portability

Protocol materials and participant-exportable data shall be maintained so that exit and compatible forks remain technically possible, subject to separate trademark rules.

Article 6 — Local ownership

Local productive assets remain with the local owners unless they voluntarily choose a shared ownership structure.

Article 7 — Shared infrastructure

Shared infrastructure should be governed by the participants that finance and depend on it.

Article 8 — Cross-stakeholder governance

Structural decisions require approval across affected stakeholder classes.

Article 9 — Capital neutrality

Financial contribution alone does not confer unilateral governance control.

Article 10 — Data

Participants retain ownership/control of private operational data. Public/shared fields are explicit.

Article 11 — Transparent standards

Certification requirements, delisting grounds and protocol changes are published and versioned.

Article 12 — Exit

Leaving the Commons shall not transfer the participant's underlying business, customer relationships or supplier relationships to the Commons.

Article 13 — Dissolution

On dissolution, protocol archives and public-interest materials should pass to a compatible non-extractive steward rather than being sold as proprietary market-control assets.

Article 14 — Constitutional lock

Articles protecting non-ownership, direct relationships, forkability, capital neutrality and exit should require the highest available amendment threshold and may warrant purpose-locked legal treatment.