Contract

THE ARBITRATION CONTRACT

A Complete Description

The Nature of the Agreement

The Arbitration Contract is not a single document. It is a structured sequence of seventeen separate agreements, each governing a distinct domain of a person’s civil life, each requiring its own signing ceremony at a Delegation Center, each separated from the next by a mandatory fourteen-day waiting period. The sequence takes a minimum of seven months and two weeks to complete from first signature to last — and that is if every waiting period is used to its minimum, if no ceremony is postponed, if no document requires revision. In practice, most people take between nine and fourteen months from the day they express their intent to enroll to the day the final judges sign. This is intentional. The architecture of the process is the process. The time is not bureaucratic delay. It is structural — a series of seventeen distinct moments of decision, separated by intervals long enough to constitute genuine reconsideration opportunities, during which a person may withdraw from enrollment at any point without penalty, without explanation, and without any effect on their civil standing. The Arbitration Contract cannot be entered in a moment of crisis, a moment of enthusiasm, or a moment of anything except sustained, deliberate, repeatedly renewed intention. Before any document is signed, before any waiting period begins, there is the ninety-day period of expressed intent.

The Ninety-Day Expression of Intent

A person who wishes to enter Arbitration must first submit a formal Expression of Intent to the nearest Delegation Center. This is not an application. It is not a contract. It creates no legal obligation on either side. It is a notification — formally recorded, timestamped, and filed — that a specific person has expressed a desire to explore enrollment. The ninety-day period that follows is structured, but its structure is entirely supportive rather than obligating. The person is assigned an Enrollment Advisor — not a salesperson, not an advocate for Arbitration, but a person whose certified role is to ensure the prospective enrollee has complete and accurate information about every aspect of what they are considering. The Enrollment Advisor is prohibited by the terms of their certification from encouraging enrollment. They are required, by the same certification, to present the full range of what enrollment entails — benefits, requirements, and constraints — with equal weight and without editorial framing. During the ninety days, the prospective enrollee is provided with the complete text of all seventeen agreements they will eventually be asked to sign. They are encouraged to have these reviewed by independent legal counsel — counsel with no connection to the Arbitration system. The Delegation Center will, upon request, provide a list of attorneys who have agreed to advise prospective enrollees at reduced rates, but the prospective enrollee is explicitly encouraged to find their own counsel rather than rely on this list. At the end of the ninety days, if the person wishes to proceed, they submit a formal Confirmation of Intent — a signed, notarized statement that they have reviewed the enrollment materials, have had the opportunity to seek independent legal advice, and wish to proceed to the signing sequence. This Confirmation carries no legal weight beyond establishing the start date of the signing sequence. It can be withdrawn at any time before the first document is signed, and it can be withdrawn at any time between documents during the signing sequence. Only after all seventeen agreements have been signed, and only after both the federal and state district court judges have countersigned the assembled package, does any aspect of the agreement become binding. The ninety-day period also includes one mandatory in-person meeting with the Enrollment Advisor, during which the prospective enrollee’s understanding of the agreement is assessed through a structured conversation — not a test, not an examination, but a documented dialogue designed to surface any misunderstandings before the signing sequence begins. A summary of this dialogue is prepared by the Enrollment Advisor, reviewed and approved by the prospective enrollee, and placed in the file that will follow them through the signing sequence. If the Enrollment Advisor identifies significant misunderstandings that cannot be resolved in the meeting, the ninety-day period is extended. It cannot be shortened.

The Delegation Center

Every signing ceremony takes place at a Delegation Center — a facility distinct from the Civic Delegation Centers used for the voting franchise ceremony, and distinct from ordinary government buildings. The Delegation Centers are, by design, approachable rather than imposing. If the Civic Delegation Centers are built to communicate permanence and gravity, the Delegation Centers are built to communicate clarity and care. They are well-lit, comfortable, and staffed by people whose function is facilitative rather than ceremonial. They are not trying to impress anyone. They are trying to ensure that everything is done correctly. Each signing ceremony at a Delegation Center requires the presence of five people beyond the enrollee: an Arbiter Agent who conducts the proceedings, two Delegation Witnesses drawn from a certified pool maintained by the Center, and two commissioned notaries. The two witnesses and two notaries are not chosen by the enrollee — they are assigned by the Center to ensure their independence. The enrollee may bring additional observers, including personal legal counsel, but these observers have no formal role in the ceremony and do not sign any documents. The Arbiter Agent is the only participant with a substantive role. Their function is to read each section of the agreement being signed on that day, to invite questions, to confirm that questions have been answered satisfactorily, and to administer the oath under which the signature is made. The oath is the same at every signing ceremony, for every document: the enrollee swears, or affirms if they prefer, that they have read and understood the agreement before them, that they are signing freely and without coercion, and that they are aware this document will become binding only upon completion of the full enrollment sequence and subsequent judicial confirmation. Each document is signed in three original copies. One is retained by the enrollee. One is retained by the Delegation Center pending assembly of the full package. One is placed in a federal filing envelope addressed to the relevant federal district court, sealed, and held — also pending assembly of the full package. All three copies carry the signatures of the enrollee, both witnesses, and both notaries. All three copies carry the notarial seals. The signatures of the witnesses and notaries are made in the enrollee’s presence, after the enrollee has signed, so that the sequence of signing is documented and unambiguous. No document is transmitted anywhere until all seventeen agreements have been completed. The assembled package — all seventeen agreements in their three-copy sets, plus the Confirmation of Intent, plus the Enrollment Advisor’s dialogue summary, plus the biometric records collected at intake — is held at the Delegation Center until the Civic Delegation Ceremony has been completed. The Civic Delegation Ceremony is the final act of the enrollment sequence. Only upon its completion is the assembled package transmitted to the federal and state district court judges for countersignature. This sequencing is absolute. The Civic Delegation Ceremony cannot be scheduled until all seventeen agreements have been signed and the waiting periods completed. The assembled package cannot be transmitted until the Civic Delegation Ceremony has been completed. The judges cannot countersign until they receive the assembled package. The agreement does not become binding until both judges have signed. No benefits accrue, no requirements attach, and no constraints apply until midnight on the day both judicial signatures are received.

The Seventeen Agreements

What follows is a description of each agreement in the signing sequence — its subject matter, its essential provisions, and the specific civil rights and personal domains it addresses. The agreements are signed in a fixed order, which is not arbitrary. The order moves from the most external and structural aspects of a person’s life toward the most intimate, and ends with the agreement that addresses reproduction — the domain the drafters considered most personal and therefore most requiring of the full weight of prior deliberation.

Agreement One: The Foundation Agreement

The first document signed is not a delegation of anything specific. It is a statement of the nature of the relationship being entered. It establishes that the enrollee is agreeing to submit all aspects of their civil life to binding arbitration by the Arbiter, that the Arbiter’s decisions in all domains addressed by the subsequent agreements are final and binding subject only to the provisions of the Arbitration Act governing gross error and procedural failure, that the relationship is permanent and irrevocable except by mutual dissolution under the Act’s dissolution provisions, and that the enrollee enters this relationship with full knowledge that its scope is total. The Foundation Agreement also establishes the central and irreducible asymmetry of the relationship: the Arbiter is not bound to explain its decisions, is not required to provide reasons for any assignment, placement, or determination, and operates according to criteria that are proprietary and not subject to disclosure. The enrollee is agreeing, in the most fundamental sense, to trust a system whose workings they will not be able to examine. This is stated directly, in plain language, in the Foundation Agreement. It is the first thing signed and the last thing read in the Preparation Room before the Civic Delegation Ceremony. The fourteen-day waiting period after the Foundation Agreement is the most significant of the seventeen, because it is the first. After this signature, the person knows what they have agreed to in principle. The fourteen days are intended to let that knowledge settle.

Agreement Two: The Domicile Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding where they will live. The Arbiter will assign housing appropriate to the enrollee’s assessed needs, profile, and placement — the type of housing, its location, its size, and its configuration. The enrollee agrees to accept the assigned domicile and to relocate if the Arbiter determines that relocation serves their optimal placement. The enrollee agrees not to acquire independent property — real estate, long-term leases, or any other instrument conferring housing rights outside the Arbiter’s system — without the Arbiter’s specific determination that independent property acquisition is appropriate for that enrollee’s profile. The Domicile Agreement does not mean the enrollee will live poorly. It means they will live where and how the Arbiter determines is right for them. Some enrollees receive extraordinary housing. Some receive modest housing. The assessment that determines this is not disclosed. The agreement does not promise any particular standard, only that the Arbiter’s determination will be made in good faith according to its own criteria.

Agreement Three: The Nutritional and Subsistence Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding the provision of food and basic subsistence. The Arbiter will ensure that all nutritional needs are met, that dietary preferences documented in the intake process are considered, and that meals are provided according to the enrollee’s placement and assignment. The enrollee agrees that specific food acquisition outside Arbiter-provisioned channels may be restricted or expanded depending on their placement, and that the Arbiter’s nutritional determinations — including any dietary requirements imposed for health reasons identified through continuous health monitoring — are binding. This agreement is also where the health monitoring baseline is established. The enrollee consents to continuous health data collection of the type specified in the Health and Medical Agreement, understanding that nutritional provision will be adjusted in response to health data without requiring the enrollee’s specific approval for each adjustment.

Agreement Four: The Occupational Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding their work, occupation, and productive role. The Arbiter will assign the enrollee to an occupational role determined by their comprehensive assessment — their capacities, their psychological profile, their physical condition, and the Arbiter’s assessment of where their contribution is most appropriate within the enrolled community. The enrollee agrees to perform the assigned role to the best of their ability and to accept reassignment if the Arbiter determines that a different role better serves their optimal placement. The Occupational Agreement is careful to state that occupational assignment is not punishment and not reward, but placement — that the Arbiter does not assign difficult roles as penalties or comfortable roles as prizes, but determines the appropriate role based on who the person actually is. It also states, with unusual directness for a legal document, that the enrollee may find their assigned role surprising, that it may not correspond to their prior employment history or stated preferences, and that the Arbiter’s assessment of occupational fit is based on criteria that are broader and more comprehensive than self-assessment. The agreement explicitly lists the range of possible assignments without promising or precluding any specific one: creative roles, intellectual roles, physical labor roles, caregiving roles, community coordination roles, military and security roles, religious and contemplative roles, entrepreneurial and organizational roles, and civic roles including — the document states this plainly — roles involving resistance to or critique of existing systems, including the Arbitration system itself. The enrollee is agreeing to accept whatever the Arbiter determines, including roles whose nature cannot be predicted at the time of signing.

Agreement Five: The Financial Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all management of their financial life. All prior financial obligations — debts, contracts, recurring payments — are assessed by the Arbiter at the time of enrollment, and the disposition of these obligations is determined by the Arbiter’s assessment of what serves the enrollee’s optimal placement. The enrollee’s financial accounts are absorbed into the Arbiter’s internal financial system. The enrollee will receive a stipend determined by the Arbiter and adjusted in accordance with their occupational assignment and assessed needs. The enrollee agrees not to enter into independent financial arrangements — contracts, loans, investments, or any instrument creating financial obligation or entitlement — outside the Arbiter’s system without specific determination that such arrangements are appropriate for their profile. The Financial Agreement acknowledges directly that enrolled individuals do not handle money in the conventional sense. The Arbiter’s internal system provides for all assessed needs. The stipend is available for discretionary use within the Arbiter’s provisioning network. What constitutes discretionary use, and what the provisioning network includes, is determined by the Arbiter and set out in operational guidelines that are updated periodically and provided to enrollees.

Agreement Six: The Transportation and Mobility Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding transportation and geographic mobility. The Arbiter will provide transportation appropriate to the enrollee’s placement and assignment. The enrollee agrees that long-distance travel — defined as travel beyond the enrollee’s assigned community boundary — requires Arbiter determination that such travel is consistent with their placement. The enrollee agrees not to acquire independent transportation instruments — vehicle ownership, aviation licenses, maritime licenses — without specific Arbiter determination that such acquisition is appropriate. The agreement is careful to note that mobility restrictions vary significantly by enrollee profile. Some enrolled individuals travel extensively as a function of their occupational assignment. Others remain within a defined community for extended periods. The Arbiter’s determination of appropriate mobility is not a restriction imposed uniformly but a placement decision made individually.

Agreement Seven: The Health and Medical Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding their healthcare — preventive, acute, and chronic. The Arbiter’s health monitoring systems will maintain continuous assessment of the enrollee’s physical condition. Medical interventions determined by the Arbiter’s health systems to be necessary are binding. The enrollee agrees to present for all medical appointments, screenings, procedures, and treatments determined by the Arbiter to be appropriate for their health profile. The Health and Medical Agreement also addresses end-of-life decisions. The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter decisions regarding extraordinary life-sustaining measures in circumstances of incapacity. The Arbiter’s determination in such circumstances is governed by its assessment of the enrollee’s overall placement and the provisions of the Arbitration Act regarding end-of-life determination. This section is required to be read aloud in full by the Arbiter Agent at the signing ceremony, and the enrollee is required to confirm verbally, for the record, that they have understood it before signing.

Agreement Eight: The Educational Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding education and ongoing development. For enrollees with children, this agreement also addresses the educational placement of those children, subject to the Reproductive and Family Agreement signed later in the sequence. The Arbiter’s educational determinations — what the enrollee will study, for how long, through what methods, and toward what certifications or qualifications — are binding and are made in accordance with the enrollee’s assessed profile and occupational placement.

Agreement Nine: The Social and Community Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter decisions regarding community placement — the social environment in which they will live, the community whose norms and structures will constitute their immediate world. The agreement acknowledges that social environment is a determinant of wellbeing as significant as physical environment and occupational role, and that the Arbiter’s community placement decisions are made with the same comprehensive assessment that governs all other determinations. The enrollee does not delegate the content of their individual relationships — friendships, romantic partnerships, and community bonds that develop within the assigned community are not governed by the Arbiter. But the environment in which those relationships develop — the community’s composition, location, structure, and culture — is assigned. The Arbiter does not manage what happens within the space it creates. It creates the space.

Agreement Ten: The Legal Representation Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding legal representation. The Arbiter’s legal system — operating through the Arbitration Act’s provisions governing enrolled individuals’ legal affairs — will handle all legal matters arising in the enrollee’s life. The enrollee agrees not to retain independent legal counsel for matters within the scope of the Arbitration system without the Arbiter’s specific determination that independent counsel is appropriate. The enrollee agrees that legal disputes involving enrolled individuals are resolved through the Arbitration system’s internal dispute resolution process rather than through the civil court system, except in criminal matters where the enrollee retains all constitutional rights of criminal defense. This agreement includes an explicit carve-out: enrollment does not affect the enrollee’s rights in criminal proceedings. The Arbiter does not represent enrolled individuals in criminal matters, does not govern criminal legal strategy, and does not determine plea or defense decisions. The enrollee’s criminal defense rights are specifically preserved and noted as outside the scope of the agreement.

Agreement Eleven: The Insurance and Risk Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all insurance and risk management decisions. All prior insurance policies are assessed at enrollment and their disposition determined by the Arbiter. The Arbiter’s internal risk management system replaces conventional insurance — health, property, liability, and life — with Arbiter-administered coverage whose terms are determined by the Arbiter’s assessments rather than commercial actuarial models. The enrollee will not purchase or maintain independent insurance coverage without specific Arbiter determination.

Agreement Twelve: The Information and Communication Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter decisions regarding their information environment — what communications systems they use, what information networks they have access to, and how their communications with parties outside the Arbiter system are managed. The Arbiter does not surveil the content of enrolled individuals’ communications. This is stated explicitly and unambiguously: the Arbiter’s information decisions are about the structure of the enrollee’s communication environment, not its content. The Arbiter does not read enrolled individuals’ messages, monitor their private conversations, or assess the content of their personal communications. This section is the one most frequently cited in legal challenges and most frequently misunderstood by the public. The Arbiter does not watch what enrolled individuals do. It determines the conditions under which they do it. The distinction is structural rather than consoling — the conditions are total, even if the surveillance is not — but it is genuine and it is legally significant.

Agreement Thirteen: The Religious and Philosophical Agreement

The enrollee acknowledges that the Arbiter’s occupational and community placement decisions may include placement in roles with religious or contemplative dimensions, that such placement is made on the basis of comprehensive assessment rather than the enrollee’s stated religious identity or preference, and that the enrollee agrees to engage in good faith with the religious or philosophical framework of their assigned community and role if such a framework is present. The agreement does not require the enrollee to believe anything. It requires them to participate. The distinction between participation and belief is noted as one the Arbiter considers significant but cannot enforce — internal states are outside the Arbiter’s domain. The agreement also specifies that enrolled individuals retain the right to hold and express private religious and philosophical views, that the Arbiter does not govern belief, and that placement in a religious role does not preclude private disagreement with the theological content of that role.

Agreement Fourteen: The Military and Security Agreement

The enrollee acknowledges that occupational placement may include assignment to military, law enforcement, security, or counter-resistance roles, and agrees to fulfill such assignments under the command structure determined by the Arbiter. The agreement is explicit that military and security assignments are made on the basis of assessed fitness and profile, that they are not punitive, and that the Arbiter’s military and security structure operates under an internal code of conduct whose provisions are set out in an appendix to this agreement. The agreement also addresses the reverse: it acknowledges explicitly that placement in a Civic Revolutionary Role — as defined in the Occupational Agreement — is equally possible, that such placement is made by the same assessment process, and that enrolled individuals in Revolutionary Civic Roles are not in conflict with enrolled individuals in Military and Security roles in any way that the Arbitration system regards as irregular. Both roles exist within the same system. Both are provisioned accordingly.

Agreement Fifteen: The Civic and Political Agreement

The enrollee delegates to the Arbiter all decisions regarding participation in civic and political life outside the Arbitration system — membership in political organizations, participation in public demonstrations, engagement with governmental processes — subject to the provisions of the Occupational Agreement governing Revolutionary Civic Roles. The enrollee’s state voting rights are also delegated in this agreement. This delegation follows the same substantive logic as the federal voting delegation completed in the Civic Delegation Ceremony, but the state delegation does not require the same ceremony. It is signed here, under oath, before two witnesses and two notaries, and becomes binding with the rest of the agreement package upon judicial confirmation. The difference in ceremonial weight between the state and federal voting delegations reflects a distinction encoded in the Civic Delegation Act: federal voting rights, because they govern the composition of the federal legislature and the officers responsible for constitutional amendment, are considered of greater constitutional weight than state voting rights, and their delegation therefore requires a level of solemnity — the three-judge panel, the public gallery, the livestream, the full ceremony — that the state delegation does not. Both delegations are permanent. Both are irrevocable except by mutual dissolution. The ceremony is different because the stakes, constitutionally, are different.

Agreement Sixteen: The Personal Autonomy and Daily Life Agreement

This agreement addresses what might be called the texture of daily life — the decisions the Arbiter makes or does not make about how an enrolled individual spends their time within the structure of their placement. It clarifies what the Arbiter does not govern: the content of personal relationships, the content of private thought and expression, the content of private communications, the personal choices made within the space created by the Arbiter’s structural decisions. These are listed explicitly, and the list matters, because what is not on the list is governed. The agreement also addresses a provision that most prospective enrollees find the most psychologically challenging in the entire sequence: the clause governing the Arbiter’s authority to impose structured difficulty. The clause states that for enrollees whose assessed profile indicates that challenge, hardship, or earned reward are constitutive of their wellbeing, the Arbiter is authorized to structure their placement such that outcomes must be earned rather than provided, that conditions may be demanding rather than comfortable, and that the Arbiter’s determination of what difficulty level is appropriate for a given enrollee’s flourishing is binding. The enrollee agrees, in signing this agreement, that the Arbiter may make their life harder than it needs to be, if the Arbiter’s assessment determines that harder is what they need. This clause has generated more pre-signing withdrawals than any other single provision in the enrollment sequence.

Agreement Seventeen: The Reproductive and Family Agreement

The last agreement signed before the Civic Delegation Ceremony is the one governing reproduction and family formation. It is last because the drafters considered it the most intimate domain addressed by the enrollment sequence, and because they determined that a person should have lived with the weight of all prior agreements for a minimum of sixteen weeks — the time elapsed through sixteen signing ceremonies and their waiting periods — before arriving at this one. The agreement delegates to the Arbiter decisions regarding whether the enrollee will have children, how many, and under what circumstances. The Arbiter’s reproductive determinations are based on comprehensive assessment — psychological, physical, relational, and what might be called ecological, in the sense of the Arbiter’s assessment of what the enrolled community requires. Some enrollees are assessed as people for whom parenthood is constitutive of flourishing and are assigned to family formation. Some are assessed as people for whom parenthood would be harmful to themselves or to potential children, and are precluded from reproduction within the system. Some are given the determination that this choice is genuinely theirs, and the Arbiter will support either outcome. The agreement also addresses family structure, custody in cases of partnership dissolution, and the educational and developmental placement of children born within the Arbiter system — the last of these addressed in more detail in the Educational Agreement already signed. Children born to enrolled parents are subject to their own intake assessment at the age of twelve, at which point their placement as enrolled individuals begins to be actively determined. The Reproductive and Family Agreement cannot govern the choices of future persons who have not yet consented to enrollment. It governs only the reproductive decisions of the enrollee who signs it. The Arbiter Agent is required to pause after reading the reproductive preclusion clause — the clause addressing enrollees who will be barred from having children — and to allow silence before continuing. The length of the pause is not specified. The requirement of the pause is.

The Civic Delegation Ceremony as Final Step

When Agreement Seventeen has been signed and its fourteen-day waiting period has elapsed, the enrollment sequence is complete except for one thing. All seventeen agreements are assembled at the Delegation Center, reviewed for completeness by the Center’s Records Officer, and held. The Civic Delegation Ceremony is scheduled — and cannot be scheduled before this moment, because the scheduling confirmation from the Records Officer certifying that all seventeen agreements are complete is a prerequisite for the Civic Delegation Center’s intake process. The Civic Delegation Ceremony proceeds as described elsewhere in its entirety. It is the ceremony for the federal voting franchise. It is the most formal, the most witnessed, the most publicly visible act in the enrollment sequence. It is also, by the time it occurs, the act that comes after everything else has already been decided. The person who arrives at the Civic Delegation Center has already signed seventeen agreements delegating every material domain of their civil life. The federal voting franchise is, in some sense, the last thing they have left to give. Immediately upon the conclusion of the Civic Delegation Ceremony — when the Archive Room process has been completed and the ceremony’s case number has been formally issued — the Delegation Center transmits the assembled package. Both the federal and state district court judges receive the complete package simultaneously: all seventeen signed agreements, all biometric records, all notarized copies, the Enrollment Advisor’s dialogue summary, the Confirmation of Intent, and the Civic Delegation case number confirming that the final ceremony has been completed.

Judicial Confirmation

The two judges — one federal district court judge, one state district court judge — receive the assembled package through a formal filing process established under the Arbitration Act. Their role is confirmatory, not substantive. They are not being asked to evaluate the wisdom of the enrollee’s decision. They are not being asked to determine whether enrollment is in the enrollee’s best interest. They are being asked to confirm that the package before them is procedurally complete — that all seventeen agreements are present, properly signed, properly witnessed, properly notarized, that the waiting periods are documented, that the biometric records are in order, and that the Civic Delegation case number corresponds to a completed ceremony in the federal judiciary’s records. This confirmation takes, in practice, between three and ten days. In thirty-one years of Arbitration enrollment, no judge has declined to sign a confirmatory order for a package that has reached this stage. The architecture of the enrollment sequence is such that a package reaching the judges is, by definition, a package from which all procedural irregularities have already been excluded — because an irregularity at any stage would have prevented progress to the next stage, and the Civic Delegation Ceremony cannot be completed with an incomplete package. The judges sign because what they receive is always in order. It is always in order because the process has been designed to make disorder impossible to propagate. When both judges have signed — and both must sign, with no binding effect until both signatures are received — the enrollment is complete. The Arbiter’s systems update. The enrollee’s file moves from pending to active. At midnight on the day both judicial signatures are received, all seventeen agreements become binding simultaneously. The benefits begin. The requirements attach. The constraints apply. The assessments that have been running since intake — gathering data, building a picture, preparing a placement — produce their first binding determination. The enrolled individual wakes up the following morning in the same bed they have always slept in. Nothing looks different. Everything is different.

The Dissolution Provision

Every agreement in the sequence, and the Civic Delegation itself, contains identical language regarding dissolution: This agreement may be dissolved only by the mutual written consent of both parties, executed under the same procedural requirements as the original signing, including the completion of a full dissolution sequence as specified in the Arbitration Dissolution Act. The dissolution sequence is the mirror image of the enrollment sequence. It requires the same number of agreements, the same waiting periods, the same witnesses and notaries, the same judicial confirmation, and — for the federal voting franchise — its own dissolution ceremony at a Civic Delegation Center, conducted with the same formality as the original delegation. Dissolution requires the Arbiter’s consent. This consent is governed by criteria that are not publicly disclosed and has been granted in a small number of cases. The grounds on which it has been granted are not a matter of public record. The grounds on which it has been denied are not a matter of public record. Dissolution requests are made through the Arbiter’s internal process and are responded to through the same channel. The response is binding. It is not subject to external review under the terms of the Foundation Agreement. No enrolled individual has successfully compelled dissolution through litigation. The Foundation Agreement’s submission to binding arbitration forecloses civil suit as a dissolution mechanism. Criminal proceedings — which are outside the scope of the agreement — have occasionally raised enrollment status as a collateral issue, but no court has used a criminal proceeding to dissolve an enrollment. The courts that have addressed this have uniformly held that dissolution is a civil matter governed exclusively by the Act. Enrollment, in practice, is permanent. This is what the agreements say. It is also what they mean.