formation-docs/analysis/synthesis/alignment-matrix.md
Alignment Matrix
This file aggregates the source-specific memos in formation-docs/analysis/principle-maps/.
Each row records where a source is strongest, where it diverges, and what it adds that Civic Blueprint should take seriously.
United States Constitution
- Strongest overlap
- Accountable power, due process, federal structure, constrained public power
- Major absences or weak areas
- Essential needs, biosphere, future generations, automation, truth infrastructure
- Distinctive contribution
- Separation of powers and reversibility as constitutional design disciplines
- Principle map
- US Constitution
United States Bill of Rights
- Strongest overlap
- Civil liberties, procedural protections, limits on state coercion
- Major absences or weak areas
- Positive rights, public-interest governance, social provision
- Distinctive contribution
- A concentrated rights shield against overreach
- Principle map
- US Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
- Strongest overlap
- Equality claims, legitimacy by consent, right to alter abusive government
- Major absences or weak areas
- Institutional detail, social rights, ecology, future obligations
- Distinctive contribution
- Founding language around political legitimacy and grievance
- Principle map
- Declaration of Independence
South Africa Constitution
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, equality, accountability, socio-economic rights, openness
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, automation, explicitly future-oriented ecological language is narrower than Civic Blueprint's
- Distinctive contribution
- One of the strongest rights-plus-transformative-governance texts in the corpus
- Principle map
- South Africa
Canadian Charter
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, freedoms, equality, legal rights, democratic accountability
- Major absences or weak areas
- Essential-needs guarantees, economic redistribution, ecology, automation
- Distinctive contribution
- Strong rights architecture plus limits clause and multicultural framing
- Principle map
- Canada Charter
India constitutional excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, social welfare direction, democratic structure
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, truth infrastructure, biosphere framed more indirectly
- Distinctive contribution
- Strong combination of rights and directive social obligations
- Principle map
- India
UDHR
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, equality, basic rights, social security, education, participation
- Major absences or weak areas
- Ecology, AI, future generations
- Distinctive contribution
- The clearest international baseline for dignity-plus-social-rights analysis
- Principle map
- UDHR
UN Charter excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Peace, human rights, collective governance, sovereign equality
- Major absences or weak areas
- Rich individual-rights detail, positive social guarantees, open-governance design
- Distinctive contribution
- Collective institutional design for peace and cooperation
- Principle map
- UN Charter
California Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Privacy, education, equality, open governance
- Major absences or weak areas
- National-scale institutional design, future generations, automation
- Distinctive contribution
- Explicit privacy language and robust initiative-era openness norms
- Principle map
- California
Massachusetts Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Liberty, accountability, civic virtue, education, separation of powers
- Major absences or weak areas
- Modern social rights, ecology, automation
- Distinctive contribution
- Old but still influential civic-republican rights language
- Principle map
- Massachusetts
Montana Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, privacy, right to know, healthy environment, participatory rights
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, automation, broader economic-rights guarantees
- Distinctive contribution
- Exceptionally strong privacy and environmental-rights language
- Principle map
- Montana
Texas Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Constrained government, due course of law, liberty, free expression
- Major absences or weak areas
- Positive rights, public-interest governance, ecology, future obligations
- Distinctive contribution
- Strong rights skepticism toward concentrated state power
- Principle map
- Texas
Germany Basic Law excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, democracy, federal constitutional order, social-state orientation
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, explicit biosphere framing, automation
- Distinctive contribution
- Human dignity as inviolable constitutional first principle
- Principle map
- Germany
France Declaration of Rights
- Strongest overlap
- Liberty, equality, popular sovereignty, due process, public accountability
- Major absences or weak areas
- Social rights, ecology, future generations
- Distinctive contribution
- High-signal classic statement of civic equality and public legitimacy
- Principle map
- France
Japan Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Popular sovereignty, pacifism, rights protections, social welfare clauses
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, biosphere, open-design participation as a design theory
- Distinctive contribution
- Strong peace commitment within a democratic rights framework
- Principle map
- Japan
Brazil Constitution excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, social rights, pluralism, environmental protection, participatory rights
- Major absences or weak areas
- AI, truth infrastructure, automation
- Distinctive contribution
- Dense integration of social, labor, and environmental commitments
- Principle map
- Brazil
EU Charter excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, justice, data protection
- Major absences or weak areas
- Institutional design questions about democratic accountability at larger scale, AI specifically
- Distinctive contribution
- Strong privacy, labor, and dignity language in a transnational legal order
- Principle map
- EU Charter
African Union Constitutive Act excerpts
- Strongest overlap
- Sovereign equality, anti-colonial self-determination, peace and governance norms
- Major absences or weak areas
- Detailed individual rights, essential-needs guarantees, ecology as a constitutional principle
- Distinctive contribution
- Regional union framing of sovereignty, democracy, and anti-unconstitutional change
- Principle map
- African Union
Mondragon principles
- Strongest overlap
- Democratic governance, labor dignity, solidarity, education, community orientation
- Major absences or weak areas
- Formal rights architecture, ecology stated less centrally, state accountability
- Distinctive contribution
- A robust organizational constitution centered on labor and democratic control
- Principle map
- Mondragon
ICA cooperative identity
- Strongest overlap
- Democracy, equity, solidarity, community, education
- Major absences or weak areas
- Rights language, coercive-power constraints, ecology as explicit first-order principle
- Distinctive contribution
- Global cooperative governance values as an organizational alternative to shareholder primacy
- Principle map
- ICA
B Corp Declaration
- Strongest overlap
- Stakeholder orientation, responsibility to people and place, future generations
- Major absences or weak areas
- Detailed governance constraints, rights protections, public accountability
- Distinctive contribution
- Concise business-purpose declaration that broadens moral scope beyond shareholders
- Principle map
- B Corp