Exercisingthe Recall
A recall procedure that has never been exercised is not a procedure. It is a slogan.
Read this first
This page is a dry-run. No real Archon, Keeper or Witness is the subject. No real seat is vacated. The purpose is to take the Recall procedure described in Accountable Stewardship and exercise it, in public, against a clean hypothetical, so that the mechanism is on the record as operable — not aspirational.
Scenario
- Respondent
- Hypothetical Archon X (sealed identifier `dry-run-archon-X`). No real person.
- Alleged conduct
- Published a Council statement that quietly narrowed the Stewardship Register schema — removing the conflict-of-interest column — without a Council resolution and without Witness record.
- Charter clause cited
- Aram Council, Rule 3: schema commitments may be widened by Council resolution; they may not be silently narrowed.
Filing
A Villager files a recall notice in writing. Notice cites the specific Charter clause and the public artefact alleged to violate it (in this dry-run: a Register snapshot with the conflict-of-interest column removed).
Outcome (dry-run): Filed. Recall ID `recall-dry-run-001`. Logged in the Stewardship Register slippage column.
Admissibility check (by Anmai Council)
Anmai Council verifies the notice cites a real clause, references a real public artefact, and does not name an individual outside their stewardship role. Vexatious or anonymous-revenge filings are dismissed at this gate.
Outcome (dry-run): Admissible. Clause is real. Artefact is real. Filing is procedural, not personal.
Notice to respondent
Respondent is notified in writing, with the filing attached. Respondent has the right to a written response and to a procedural Witness of their choosing from the Witness pool.
Outcome (dry-run): Notice issued. Respondent appoints procedural Witness from pool.
Response window
Respondent submits a written response. Response may concede, contest the facts, or contest the clause interpretation. No verbal-only proceedings.
Outcome (dry-run): Respondent contests on interpretation: argued the column was 'a presentation detail, not a schema commitment'.
Council deliberation
The council that confirmed the respondent's seat deliberates. The deliberation is recorded in summary form for the Register. A minimum of two Witnesses must be present, one of whom must be a Continuity Witness.
Outcome (dry-run): Aram Council deliberates with Continuity Witness A and Witness B present. Finds: the COI column is a schema commitment fixed by Stewardship Register Entry 0. Removal without resolution is a Rule-3 violation.
Resolution
Three outcomes are possible. (i) Dismissal: filing fails on the merits. (ii) Censure: violation confirmed, respondent retains seat, public censure recorded. (iii) Recall: respondent's seat is vacated and confirmation is withdrawn.
Outcome (dry-run): Censure (dry-run). The dry-run does not vacate a seat because no real seat exists. The procedural test is satisfied.
Publication
Outcome is recorded in the Stewardship Register with rationale and Witness record. Append-only — the entry is never deleted, never edited.
Outcome (dry-run): Published as `recall-dry-run-001 — censure (procedural test only, no real respondent)`.
What this dry-run proves
- The procedure runs end-to-end without requiring a state, a court, or a party machinery.
- Every step has a written gate. No verbal-only outcomes.
- Every outcome is recallable by the body that produced it, at the next cycle, on the same procedural rails.
- Every step requires Witness presence. The two-Witness rule is binding.
- The dry-run produced a clean Register entry. The Register format survives a hostile filing without ambiguity.
What this dry-run is not
- This is not a real proceeding. No person is named. No seat is vacated. No real respondent exists.
- This is not a court ruling. TLTE does not adjudicate disputes outside its own stewardship.
- This is not a precedent in any legal sense. It is an internal procedural test under the Charter.
- This does not open public intake of complaints against named individuals. The Recall procedure is for confirmed stewardship seats only.