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MCOG Explainer (B) in Plain Language

The same covenant, written so a careful general reader can use it. No new doctrine. If this page and the Open Standard ever seem to disagree, the standard wins. The Moral Covenant of Governance (MCOG) states that legitimate governance is compliance with three moral pillars—Adherence to the Golden Rule/Reciprocity, Protection of the Commons/Stewardship, and Securing of Unalienable Rights—applied to every governance action so that none is violated and each is advanced. Standalone appeal to the pillars is not enough: complex societies require a modest body of derivative positive law generated from, tested against, and kept perpetually compliant with those pillars. Full compliance so defined is the necessary and sufficient condition for a Virtuous Cycle of Liberty: sustained high liberating intensity and near-zero tyrannical intensity across generations (ROLIS high, ROTIS near zero). The claim is internal to the framework, operational, and falsifiable: a sustained virtuous cycle that systematically violates a pillar, or full pillar compliance that fails to produce such a cycle, would refute it. This explainer is the plain-language companion. MCOG Explainer (A) for Researchers and Analy

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