Reader's Guide to the Errata

This guide summarizes all proposed changes from Constitution v1.0 to v2.0, organized by the GRIN principle each change addresses.

Changes to Increase Resilience (R↑)

Current (v1.0)	Proposed (v2.0)	Rationale
Unlimited self-pardons	No self-pardons or co-conspirator pardons	Closes extraction pathway
Emergency powers without sunset	30-day expiration, supermajority renewal	Prevents permanent emergency state
At-will civil service	Protected career positions	Preserves institutional knowledge
IG removal by president	Bipartisan appointment, supermajority removal	Protects error-correction function
Lifetime judicial terms	18-year rotating terms	Regular refreshment, predictable vacancies
No judicial ethics code	Binding ethics, recusal rules	Preserves legitimacy

Changes to Reduce Resistance to Change (Rc↓)

Current (v1.0)	Proposed (v2.0)	Rationale
Gerrymandered districts	Independent redistricting	Allows voter preferences to matter
Permanent filibuster	Talking filibuster, declining threshold	Delay allowed, obstruction not
Near-impossible amendment	Multi-track amendment process	Calibrated Rc by change type
Interstate compacts need Congress	Compacts enabled by default	Regional solutions unblocked

Changes to Increase Generativity (G↑)

Current (v1.0)	Proposed (v2.0)	Rationale
Federal preemption creep	Explicit subsidiarity principle	Preserves state laboratories
Amendment near-impossible	Sunset track for experiments	Enables reversible innovation
Citizen initiative absent	Citizen initiative track	Bypass for captured legislatures
No regular constitutional review	25-year review commission	Institutionalized reflection

Changes to Improve Efficiency (Ge↑)

Current (v1.0)	Proposed (v2.0)	Rationale
2-year House terms	4-year terms with recall option	Reduces permanent campaign mode
Unfunded mandates	Mandates require federal funding	Aligns responsibility with resources
War power ambiguity	Clear 48-hour limit, sunset	Reduces forever wars

Changes to Prevent Extraction

Current (v1.0)	Proposed (v2.0)	Rationale
Unlimited money in politics	Small-dollar matching (6:1)	Aligns candidates with citizens, not donors
No term limits	Senate: 12-year limit	Prevents patronage accumulation
Presidential cooling-off: none	10-year federal appointment ban	Breaks patronage networks
States can extract from minorities	Floor protections, strengthened P&I	No state extraction machines
5-4 Court can strike laws	6-3 supermajority required	Reduces single-justice power

What Remains Unchanged

• Three branches of government (separation of powers)
• Bicameral legislature (House + Senate)
• Presidential veto and override
• Senate confirmation of appointments/treaties
• Judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
• Bill of Rights protections
• Federal structure (national + state)
• Republican form of government guarantee
• Supremacy of Constitution and federal law

The GRIN Test Applied

Every proposed change was evaluated against the framework:

1. Does it increase G? (Enable new institutions, ideas, solutions)
2. Does it improve Ge? (Reduce friction per unit of governance)
3. Does it strengthen R? (Better withstand shocks, preserve function)
4. Does it optimize Rc? (Right level of change resistance for the provision)
5. Does it close extraction pathways? (Prevent capture by rent-seekers)

Changes that failed these tests were rejected. What remains is a constitution that preserves the Founders' core insights while patching the vulnerabilities they could not have foreseen.

Implementation Path

These changes require amendments under v1.0 rules (until v2.0 amendment process is adopted). Priority order:

1. Amendment process reform (unlocks everything else)
2. Redistricting/filibuster (restores legislative function)
3. Executive extraction patches (pardon, emergency, IG)
4. Judicial term limits (depoliticizes Court)
5. Federalism clarifications (subsidiarity, floor/ceiling)

The hardest part is step 1. But once the amendment process is reformed, everything else becomes possible.