The Constitution Charter of Continuity Science

The Constitution Charter of Continuity Science v1.0 establishes the constitutional framework governing the interpretation, enforcement, and extension of the Canonical Laws of Continuity Science. It defines the authoritative order, ontological commitments, scope, and enforcement principles of the discipline as a closed, law-first scientific system. The Charter formalizes Continuity Science as non-normative, non-optimizing, and ontology-closed. It prescribes no goals, values, or preferred outcomes. Instead, it specifies the conditions under which continuity claims are structurally admissible or invalid, independent of performance, utility, or institutional endorsement. Key provisions include: • supremacy and immutability of the Canonical Laws within v1.0, • prohibition of metric authority over continuity claims, • mandatory observer coupling and responsibility traceability, • restrictive interpretation rules favoring stricter falsifiability, • enforcement through structural failure rather than institutional action, • explicit versioning and fork declaration requirements. The Charter’s function is explicitly preventative: to ensure that structural failure cannot be retroactively justified by success, intent, or outcomes. Ethical continuity is treated as a derived structural property arising from preserved responsibility traceability, not as a moral or normative overlay. This document declares epistemic closure of Continuity Science v1.0. All foundational questions are closed; remaining work concerns instantiation only. Any alteration to the Canon or ontology mandates declaration of a new major version.