What power is actually acquired by whoever builds the system in which an institution makes its decisions, and why operating the infrastructure confers no public powers.
Read Architecture of Limits, part OneArchitecture of Limits
An Edelon series on authority, technology and the rule of law.
A system that structures public decisions concentrates a capacity that no company should exercise without explicit limits. This series does not describe features: it sets out the constraints under which Edelon agrees to be judged, before there are contracts or incidents that invite loosening them.
How a common technological foundation can serve the three branches of government without nullifying the separation that the constitution establishes.
Read Architecture of Limits, part TwoThe series continues. Each essay is published when it can state honestly what is designed, what is implemented and what remains unproven; not before.