Policy Statement
MUSEUM / SEAL
Ratified Memory Authority
The Museum / Seal is the Federation’s constitutional record layer.
Where the Charter defines invariants,
the Museum enforces continuity.
Where domains operate,
the Seal affirms authority state.
FUNCTION
The Museum / Seal:
Houses ratified instruments under Article XV
Preserves archival state under Article XIV
Maintains trace continuity required by Article IV
Ensures amendment without erasure
Nothing binding exists without record.
Nothing recorded is silently altered.
STRUCTURAL ROLE
The Museum is not curation.
It is custody.
The Seal is not symbolism.
It is authority confirmation.
Every sealed instrument:
Declares origin
Declares lifecycle boundary
Declares jurisdictional scope
Declares amendment lineage
Supersession does not destroy prior state.
Invalidation does not remove trace.
RELATION TO THE FEDERATION
The Museum / Seal implements:
Auditability
Record over Erasure
Lifecycle Integrity
Backward compatibility of constitutional state
It does not interpret.
It does not adjudicate.
It does not persuade.
It preserves.
CANONICAL PRINCIPLE
Authority without record collapses.
Record without structure decays.
The Museum / Seal prevents both.