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Constitutional Self — Boundary and Terminology Matrix

Status: draft Content canon status: unset

| Concept | Retain? | Boundary | |---|---:|---| | Constitutional self | Yes | Governance-oriented synthesis, not a diagnosis or discovery of internal plurality | | Constitutional element | Cautiously | Ontology-neutral working representation; user language takes priority | | Local internal standing | Yes | Right to representation in self-governance, not independent external sovereignty | | Person-level sovereignty | Yes, hard invariant | No model, clinician, or institution may bypass the person through an inferred internal part | | Executive configuration | Yes | Current control state, not the whole self | | Executive authority | Yes | Scoped permission to act; distinct from behavioral dominance | | Constitutional legitimacy | Provisionally | Normative governance test, not clinical measurement | | Internal consent | Yes, defined narrowly | Adequate representation, boundaries, and review—not unanimity | | Internal witness | Yes | Corrigibility, not surveillance or punishment | | Internal telic field | Cautiously | Structured working map, not a measurable hidden field | | Embodied standing | Yes | Body signals are evidence, not infallible truth | | Core Self | User-selectable only | Not required by the framework | | IFS part taxonomy | No default adoption | May be used by a person or clinician who chooses it | | Structural-dissociation categories | Clinical use only | Not a default model of ordinary ambivalence | | Recovered-memory interpretation | No | Experience must remain distinct from historical proof | | AI parts therapy | No | AI may organize user-authored reflection but not diagnose or discover hidden parts | | Atelic/paratelic protection | Yes | Rest, play, presence, privacy, and release may be valuable without instrumental purpose |

Governing invariant

Internal representation may deepen person-level agency. It may never become a route around person-level sovereignty.