Bounded Power Framework

Keeping power small enough to stop.

Institutions make decisions that bind people's lives. Left unattended, their powers tend to widen, outlast their purpose, and become difficult to question or reverse. That is an ordinary tendency, not a moral failure, and it can be answered with structure.

The framework rests on one idea: authority does not continue by default. Each power has to show, at set intervals, that it is still justified. A power that is renewed carries on. One that cannot be justified ends, and the institution carries on without it.

v1, published for independent review. No institution or government has adopted it.

Three ways in

Something happened to me Put on record what an organization or an office did, in your own words. About ten minutes. Nothing on the page is sent anywhere. Make a witness report Examine an institution Record how its powers are built: who authorized them, when they expire, and what can stop them. How a record is made Understand or evaluate the framework The reasoning, and the 101 rules it leads to. Published to be tested and criticized. Where to start reading

Before a report

If anyone is in immediate danger, emergency services come first. A report is a record, not a rescue.

Other ways to make a witness report, with an AI assistant or by hand, are in Start Here.