The Guarantee Clause: Article IV, Section 4 as a Constitutional Governance Invariant

The Founding generation engineered a structure intended to endure across time, disagreement, and succession.

Jan 4 • Steve Englander

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December 2025

The Ordered Inheritance of Liberty in Western Civilization

Across the span of human history, communities have sought ways to preserve their achievements, carry forward their principles, and sustain conditions in…

Dec 30, 2025 • Steve Englander

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November 2025

The Polylithic Monetary Republic: A Constitutional Proof-of-Work Network for a Sovereign, Citizen-Mined U.S. Treasury

Each Congress operates as a sovereign ledger epoch, a defined period of transactions, deliberation, and authenticated recordkeeping validated by the…

Nov 27, 2025 • Steve Englander

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The U.S. Constitution Does Not Specify Three Co-Equal Branches of Government

Modern civic language frequently presents the United States government as a system of “three co-equal branches.” This phrase does not appear in the U.S.

Nov 22, 2025 • Steve Englander

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On Civilizational Monetary Cycles, Elite Entrenchment, and Systemic Resets

Across the history of civilizations, the structure of monetary authority has often defined the trajectory of political power, social stability, and…

Nov 19, 2025 • Steve Englander

The City and the Republic: Architecture of Power in Human Civilization

Cities are the material expression of centralized coordination.

Nov 14, 2025 • Steve Englander

The AI Governance Paradox — A Constitutional Framework for Intelligent Systems

Original research preprint from United States Lab’s ongoing study on constitutional governance architecture and clause-bound AI

Nov 7, 2025 • Steve Englander

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The Second Amendment and the Architecture of Civic Resilience

The same civic logic that defined the citizen militia also defines citizen verification, citizen validation, and citizen record-keeping in the digital…

Nov 4, 2025 • Steve Englander

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October 2025

The Madisonian Blockchain Specification: Constitutional Grounding of Decentralized Governance in United States Protocol

Blockchain technology, at its deepest level, is a constitutional architecture.

Oct 29, 2025 • Steve Englander

The Core Vestment: From Declaration to Constitution — How the People Encode, Constrain, and Upgrade American Governance

We The People of the United States of America are the governance protocol authors.

Oct 20, 2025 • Steve Englander

Faithful Execution: The Take Care Clause and the Architecture of Constitutional Governance

This treatise belongs to the United States Lab Governance Canon, a body of work exploring the correspondence between the founding principles of the…

Oct 18, 2025 • Steve Englander

The Continuity Clause: Secession, Sovereignty, and the Genesis Signal

The Continuity Clause is the core of American constitutional permanence, both in its historical form under the Executive Oath, and in its analytical…

Oct 9, 2025 • Steve Englander