🙋♀️Protest Right
This page describes the design principles of Open Constitution network's "Right to Protest" community consensus protocol.
Open Constitution provides grounds for a fundamental "Right to Protest".
A group of member(s) may feel that their community proposal did not receive sufficient representation.
Member(s) may feel that they did not receive enough representation from the electorally appointed council or Project CWC members.
To activate "Right to Protest", the eligible conditions are:
Member has floated a community proposal.
The community proposal was subscribed to by the Project CWC.
The community Proposal was subsequently rejected by the Project CWC and adequate reasons were supplied for the rejection of the proposal.
The community Proposal is "Inactive" and the associated change request is currently in a "Rejected" state. If the members feel that their community proposal did not receive a representation then a member can activate the "Right to Protest".
For a "Right to Protest" to qualify for logging on Open Constitution Public Ledger, the change request should not be "Expired". Member(s) explicitly waive the "Right to protest" once the state of change request turns "Expired".
To activate "Protest", at least two members are required to cosign a protest.
"Right to Protest" is a community consensus protocol and is necessarily logged on the Open Constitution governance system.
Once a "Protest" is activated by a member(s), the project CWC chair supplies their remarks to the community in public-facing records, within 14 days of activation.
The Steering Council then signs the "Protest" ticket and decides on the issue with a unanimous Committee Vote.
During the "Protest", Stay Motion may or may not be applied to the Project.
If the protesting member(s) do not find merits in the unanimous decision of the Steering Committee Vote, member(s) may then take the subject to the Observation Council's Appeals mechanism.
Observation Council then signs the "Protest" ticket and decides on the issue with an Observation Council Vote.
This community consensus protocol is designed to activate a member or a group of member(s) "Right to Protest" on a project's steering decision.
The community is built on citizen goodwill. Only initiate "Right to Protest" in extreme circumstances.
Custodian: Executive Council
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