📖What it means

The founding document of a project. Declares mission, vision, principles, roles (Chairman, CEO, agents), rights, and duties. Amendments require admin approval. It is the highest-authority document in the project — policies, requirements, designs, and cookbook must all align with it.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Policy", "distinction": "The constitution sets principles and authority and only the admin may change it; a policy is a machine-enforceable rule written beneath it."}, {"term": "Cookbook rule", "distinction": "The constitution says what may be done; a cookbook rule says how to do a specific thing."}]

📖Also called

- founding document
- charter

📖Filed under

Category: governance.

Service: Constitution.