Communities do not usually fail because their food systems collapse. They fail because the human agreement at the core was never made explicit, was made explicit but not honored, or was honored in ways that curdled into coercion.
This paper formalizes the Compact that precedes the architecture, resting on three commitments: regenerative abundance, human rights as an absolute floor that no design choice or collective decision may violate, and participation as membership, where belonging is constituted by ongoing voluntary participation rather than by birth, purchase, or credential. It specifies the Threshold, the Leaving Provision, and the Wilderness, the guaranteed physical outside of the system, whose preservation obligation scales with the framework's own success.
The paper addresses the tensions among the three commitments rather than resolving them by omission, on the position that a compact which hides its tensions is a marketing document and one that names them is a founding instrument.