Authority, Governance & Due Process

Primes about how legitimate authority operates: governance and sovereignty, accountability and transparency, delegation of authority and tiered escalation, impartiality and procedural fairness, adjudication and precedent, consent, psychological safety, politeness strategies, verification.

18 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Accountability — framed · distinctive
• Adjudication (Dispute Resolution) — framed · distinctive
• Authority — framed · crowded
• Authority Delegation Under Uncertainty — framed · mid
• Consent — framed · distinctive
• Delegation of Authority — framed · distinctive
• Fairness — framed · mid
• Governance — framed · crowded
• Impartiality — — · crowded
• Legitimacy — framed · distinctive
• Local Autonomy & Tiered Escalation — mixed-framed · crowded
• Pragmatic Politeness Strategies — framed · distinctive
• Precedent (Stare Decisis) — framed · distinctive
• Procedural Fairness (Due Process) — framed · crowded
• Psychological Safety — framed · distinctive
• Sovereignty — framed · distinctive
• Transparency — framed · distinctive
• Verification — — · crowded