Legitimacy
Test
Test who authorizes each power, how affected people participate, and how determinations become consequential for actors who never joined.
Failure criterion
A design fails when agreement among the regulated actors is its entire basis for authority, or when its decisions reach outsiders through any route other than powers that states and other parties already lawfully hold.
Questions testing this condition
- How should military autonomy fit within the mandate?
- Where would legitimate authority come from?
- Who resolves a dispute when powerful participants disagree?
- How would this institution relate to existing states?
- Does drafting an AI model's constitution substitute for this institution's jurisdiction?
- What rights would affected parties retain?
- How do withdrawal and functional defection work?
- How can decisions reach actors who never joined?
- Can infrastructure restrictions avoid cartel power?
- Who determines equivalence?
- What evidence would count against creating the institution?