Governance fails when it lives in a document separate from the decision it is meant to constrain. The Decision Constitution is attached to the decision itself, and the workspace enforces it before approval, not after.
Each decision carries its own Constitution: the mandate that authorized it, what the decision is permitted to do, what it is explicitly prohibited from doing, hard limits, and the triggers that force escalation to a named authority. Unlike a policy document, the workspace will not let the decision reach approval while a Constitutional article is unresolved.
Who authorized this decision and under what scope.
What the resulting system or decision is explicitly allowed to do.
What it is explicitly forbidden from doing, regardless of business pressure.
Quantitative thresholds that cannot be exceeded without re-approval.
Conditions that automatically route the decision to a named senior authority.
Who can pause or reverse the decision once it is in production, and how.
An unresolved article blocks progression to the approval stage — it cannot be waived by a status change alone.
Constitutional status appears on the first page of the Dossier, not buried in an appendix.
The sample dossier includes a fully drafted Constitution with an active escalation trigger.