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Indian Constitution (1950): Preamble (justice, liberty, equality, fraternity); Article 13 (laws inconsistent with fundamental rights are void); Articles 14-18 (equality); Articles 19 and 21 (liberty and life, read expansively); Article 32 (constitutional remedies); Articles 38-39 (a social order serving the common good, against concentration of wealth); Article 48A (environment); Article 352 and the 44th Amendment, 1978 (emergency, and the safeguards added after 1975); Article 366 (defined terms); Article 368 (amendment); Part XXI (transitional provisions); the basic-structure doctrine of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, 1973; K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India, 2017 (privacy as a fundamental right). legislative.gov.in/constitution-of-india · Kesavananda Bharati · Puttaswamy
United States Constitution (1789): Articles I-III and Federalist No. 51 (separation of powers, ambition checking ambition); Article V (amendment and convention); the Fourth Amendment (privacy); the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments (due process, equal protection); the Second Amendment, with District of Columbia v. Heller, 2008 (a right frozen to its founding form); Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015, and the Defence of Marriage Act (a right that ossified into exclusion). constitution.congress.gov · Federalist No. 51 · Obergefell · Heller
European Union: the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 1 dignity, Articles 20-21 equality, Article 47 effective remedy); the GDPR (Article 22, automated decisions and the right to explanation; data-subject rights); the EU AI Act (risk classification; Article 5 prohibited practices; Article 14 human oversight; Articles 2 and 3 scope and definitions; Articles 9, 15, 43, 61; Articles 111-113 phased compliance); the TFEU (Articles 101-102 abuse of a dominant position; Article 191 the precautionary principle). EU Charter · GDPR · EU AI Act
South African Constitution (1996): Section 9 (equality), Section 10 (dignity), Section 12 (freedom and security), Section 24 (environment for present and future generations), Sections 25 and 27 (property in the public interest; social security), Section 34 (access to courts), Section 36 (the general limitations clause), Section 37 (states of emergency with non-derogable rights), Section 39 (interpretation of rights), Chapter 1 (founding provisions), Schedule 6 (transition from apartheid); S v Makwanyane, 1995 (due process before the ending of a life); the tradition of transformative constitutionalism. SA Constitution · S v Makwanyane
German Basic Law (Grundgesetz, 1949): Article 1 (human dignity inviolable), Article 14(2) (property entails obligations to the public good), Article 19 (restrictions only by general law), Article 20a (the natural foundations of life, for future generations), Article 79(3) (the eternity clause), Articles 143-146 (transitional provisions); the proportionality jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court (Lüth, 1958, and after). German Basic Law
Magna Carta (1215): chapters 39-40 (no punishment without lawful judgment; no one above the law). Magna Carta
European Convention on Human Rights: Article 15 (derogation in emergency, with non-derogable rights). ECHR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966): Article 4 (derogation, and the non-derogable-rights list), with the Siracusa Principles (1985) on the limits of derogation. ICCPR Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): the shared floor of dignity and rights. UDHR Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969): Article 26 (pacta sunt servanda: freely made commitments bind and must be kept in good faith). VCLT OECD: the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting framework (against sheltering profit through jurisdictional arbitrage). OECD BEPS The guardian ad litem doctrine of common law (a voice for those who cannot yet speak for themselves).
The Bhagavad Gita: the ethical spine: action without attachment to its fruits (2.47), the being of steady wisdom (2.56), one's own dharma (3.35), and empathic identification with all beings (6.32). holy-bhagavad-gita.org
The Mahabharata: the frame and much of the interior: the dice hall and Draupadi's question; Krishna's counsel and his peace embassy; the five villages refused; Arjuna's meeting with the Kirata; Bhishma's vow and its unravelling through Amba, Parashurama, and Shikhandi; the Yaksha's questioning; Yudhishthira and the dog at heaven's gate; the reciprocity teaching ("do not do to another what would pain you"); and the counsel of the Shanti Parva. sacred-texts.com/hin/maha
The Ramayana of Valmiki: Shabari's tasted berries, and the building of the Setu, the bridge to Lanka. valmikiramayan.net
The Puranas: the Bhagavata Purana (Kubera and the treasury; Bali and Vamana; the churning of the ocean; Rantideva; the Bull of Dharma and Parikshit; Matsya and the flood); the Vishnu Purana (the Vamana avatar); the Shiva Purana (Lingodbhava, and the tale of Amba); the Brahmanda Purana (Saraswati giving creation its form); the Matsya Purana (Manu and the deluge). vedabase.io/en/library/sb · sacred-texts.com/hin
The Upanishads: the Katha (Nachiketa at Death's door; the Self that death cannot touch); the Isha (all beings sharing in the divine; covet no one's wealth); the Taittiriya (speak the truth, walk in dharma); the Chandogya (Brahman pervading all); the Maha Upanishad (the world is one family); the Mundaka (truth alone triumphs). sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15
The Vedas: the Rig Veda above all: truth is one, the wise name it in many ways (1.164.46); the hymn of creation's uncertainty (10.129); Indra and Vritra and the thunderbolt; Varuna, guardian of the cosmic order. sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda
Other classical sources: the Arthashastra of Kautilya (the Sama-Dana-Bheda-Danda sequence; the treasury as the ground of governance); the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (aparigraha, non-possessiveness, 2.39); the Nirukta of Yaska (the science of definition); the Mimamsa Sutras of Jaimini (reading each provision in the light of the whole). sacred-texts.com/hin/kaut
Leopold Aschenbrenner, "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead" (June 2024): the urgency argument this Constitution answers with a framework rather than fear. situational-awareness.ai
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