{
  "schema": "kbatch-declaration-through-lines-v1",
  "generated": "2026-07-23",
  "claim": "Thematic through-lines: political hopes, sacred-text branches, layered-line substrates · overlap and divergence",
  "epistemic": "Educational comparative model · not a complete corpus of world law · verify primary instruments",
  "throughLines": [
    {
      "id": "popular-sovereignty",
      "label": "Popular sovereignty / consent of the governed",
      "hope": "Legitimate rule arises from the people, not pure dynastic or colonial title.",
      "usDeclaration": "Governments derive just powers from the consent of the governed.",
      "divergence": "Who counts as “the people” expands or contracts (property, race, gender, indigeneity, citizenship).",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "US Declaration states consent theory while excluding most residents from suffrage."
        },
        {
          "year": 1789,
          "note": "French Rights of Man universalizes citizen language; practice remains contested."
        },
        {
          "year": 1804,
          "note": "Haiti forces the question of who is free enough to be sovereign."
        },
        {
          "year": 1948,
          "note": "UDHR universalizes dignity language beyond national citizenship alone."
        },
        {
          "year": 1996,
          "note": "South Africa preamble centers healing divisions after racial rule."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "france-rights-man-1789",
        "haiti-declaration-1804",
        "un-udhr-1948",
        "south-africa-1996-preamble"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "natural-rights",
      "label": "Natural / unalienable rights",
      "hope": "Some rights pre-exist government and limit what rulers may do.",
      "usDeclaration": "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness · Creator-endowed framing.",
      "divergence": "Lists differ (property, security, fraternity, dignity); theology vs secular naturalism; positive vs negative rights.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Life · liberty · happiness (property often in drafts/elsewhere)."
        },
        {
          "year": 1789,
          "note": "Liberty · property · security · resistance to oppression."
        },
        {
          "year": 1791,
          "note": "US Bill of Rights enumerates procedural and expressive limits."
        },
        {
          "year": 1948,
          "note": "UDHR broadens to social, economic, and cultural claims."
        },
        {
          "year": 2000,
          "note": "EU Charter clusters dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "france-rights-man-1789",
        "us-bill-of-rights-1791",
        "un-udhr-1948",
        "eu-charter-2000"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "right-of-revolution",
      "label": "Right (and duty) to alter or abolish destructive government",
      "hope": "When rule becomes tyranny, the people may reconstitute authority.",
      "usDeclaration": "Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.",
      "divergence": "Later constitutions often channel change into amendment, elections, and courts — revolution becomes exceptional or criminalized.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Revolutionary justification front-and-center."
        },
        {
          "year": 1787,
          "note": "US Constitution hardens amendment and republican form — containment of revolution."
        },
        {
          "year": 1945,
          "note": "Anti-colonial proclamations revive alter/abolish against empire."
        },
        {
          "year": 1996,
          "note": "Negotiated constitutional revolution in South Africa."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "us-constitution-1787",
        "vietnam-1945",
        "south-africa-1996-preamble"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "equality-claim",
      "label": "Equality claim",
      "hope": "Persons stand equal under the moral and legal order.",
      "usDeclaration": "All men are created equal — powerful sentence, historically incomplete application.",
      "divergence": "Equality of status, opportunity, outcome; racial hierarchy denials; gender; caste; colonial double standards.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Equality rhetoric amid slavery and dispossession."
        },
        {
          "year": 1804,
          "note": "Haiti centers Black freedom against racial empire."
        },
        {
          "year": 1948,
          "note": "UDHR Article 1 — dignity and rights without distinction."
        },
        {
          "year": 1950,
          "note": "India preamble — justice, liberty, equality, fraternity."
        },
        {
          "year": 1996,
          "note": "South Africa — non-racialism and non-sexism as constitutional pillars."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "haiti-declaration-1804",
        "un-udhr-1948",
        "india-1950-preamble",
        "south-africa-1996-preamble"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "anti-colonial",
      "label": "Anti-colonial / national self-determination",
      "hope": "Peoples under empire may claim independent statehood.",
      "usDeclaration": "Dissolve political bands with a metropolitan power · list of injuries.",
      "divergence": "Settler independence vs decolonization; Indigenous sovereignty often remains unresolved inside new states.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Settler colonial break from Britain."
        },
        {
          "year": "1810s-1820s",
          "note": "Spanish American independences reuse grievance form."
        },
        {
          "year": 1918,
          "note": "Wilsonian and post-imperial eastern European declarations."
        },
        {
          "year": "1945-1960s",
          "note": "Asian and African decolonization wave."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "venezuela-1811",
        "mexico-1821",
        "indonesia-1945",
        "vietnam-1945",
        "ireland-1916"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-outline",
      "label": "Rule-based outline (how hopes become machinery)",
      "hope": "Written procedures bind rulers: powers, offices, rights, change rules.",
      "usDeclaration": "States ends and grievances; does not design the machinery.",
      "divergence": "Declaration → Constitution → Amendments → courts · or proclamation → party-state · or international charter over national law.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Ends and injuries."
        },
        {
          "year": "1787-1791",
          "note": "US machinery + Bill of Rights."
        },
        {
          "year": "1948-2000",
          "note": "International and supranational rights layers."
        },
        {
          "year": "varies",
          "note": "Each polity amendment / coup / rewrite history is the live divergence track."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "us-constitution-1787",
        "us-bill-of-rights-1791",
        "un-udhr-1948",
        "eu-charter-2000"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "grievance-form",
      "label": "Grievance catalogue form",
      "hope": "Public list of wrongs justifies reconstitution of authority.",
      "usDeclaration": "Long train of abuses… Facts submitted to a candid world.",
      "divergence": "Later instruments may use shorter proclamations, socialist critiques, or truth-and-reconciliation narratives.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Canonical grievance list."
        },
        {
          "year": 1836,
          "note": "Texas mirrors US form."
        },
        {
          "year": 1945,
          "note": "Vietnamese text cites Western rights then indicts colonial practice."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "texas-1836",
        "vietnam-1945"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "authority-of-text",
      "label": "Authority of the written / carved line",
      "hope": "A public line (stone, scroll, parchment, print) can bind rulers and communities.",
      "usDeclaration": "Engrossed parchment as the American public line of independence claims.",
      "divergence": "Who authors, who authenticates, who may revise — stone edict vs canon vs constitution vs annotated popular Bible.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": -1750,
          "note": "Carved public law as authority display."
        },
        {
          "year": 405,
          "note": "Latin Vulgate tradition as Western authority of text."
        },
        {
          "year": 1537,
          "note": "Matthew Bible branch — vernacular print authority contested."
        },
        {
          "year": 1611,
          "note": "KJV / Authorized convergence of English branches."
        },
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Engrossed Declaration as political public line."
        },
        {
          "year": 1787,
          "note": "Constitution hardens amendable machinery of the line."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "stone-carved-law",
        "vulgate",
        "matthew-bible",
        "kjv-1611",
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "us-constitution-1787"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "translation-branch",
      "label": "Translation as branching history",
      "hope": "A people may receive a source tradition in their own tongue without losing continuity.",
      "usDeclaration": "N/A as biblical canon · parallel: translations of the Declaration itself as multilingual plane.",
      "divergence": "Source texts, annotators, royal/papal/parliamentary authorization, martyr risk, later official convergence.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": -250,
          "note": "Septuagint Greek transmission path."
        },
        {
          "year": 1382,
          "note": "Wycliffite English vernacular tradition."
        },
        {
          "year": 1526,
          "note": "Tyndale print English foundation."
        },
        {
          "year": 1537,
          "note": "Matthew Bible (Rogers) merges Tyndale + Coverdale."
        },
        {
          "year": 1560,
          "note": "Geneva annotated popular branch."
        },
        {
          "year": 1611,
          "note": "KJV converges official English public text."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "septuagint",
        "tyndale-nt",
        "coverdale-bible",
        "matthew-bible",
        "geneva-bible",
        "great-bible",
        "kjv-1611"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "layered-lines",
      "label": "Layered lines (substrate paleography)",
      "hope": "Linear public address can be studied as laid bands of meaning — stone rows, scroll columns, engrossed lines, penmanship layers.",
      "usDeclaration": "L01–L35 engrossed lines · penmanship cone passes · raw vs Stone.",
      "divergence": "Carrier changes (rock, clay, skin, paper, screen) while linear address and indexable bands persist.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": -2100,
          "note": "Tablet / list culture."
        },
        {
          "year": -1750,
          "note": "Carved stelae bands."
        },
        {
          "year": -100,
          "note": "Scroll columns (Qumran-type witnesses)."
        },
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Engrossed parchment lines + later engraving."
        },
        {
          "year": 2026,
          "note": "Digital dual + stroke layering cone as research instrument."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "stone-carved-law",
        "us-declaration-1776"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "catechism-circles",
      "label": "Catechism & confessional teaching circles",
      "hope": "Communities transmit condensed teaching instruments alongside full canons.",
      "usDeclaration": "Not a catechism · parallel form: short public claims that teach a people who they are.",
      "divergence": "Denomination, language, school, state church vs free church — form recurs across religious circles.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": 405,
          "note": "Latin teaching culture around Vulgate."
        },
        {
          "year": 1529,
          "note": "Reformation catechisms proliferate with confessions."
        },
        {
          "year": 1560,
          "note": "Geneva notes as popular teaching layer."
        },
        {
          "year": "varies",
          "note": "Each circle maintains its own short instruments — research map, not ranking."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "vulgate",
        "geneva-bible",
        "matthew-bible"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-transmission",
      "label": "Sacred transmission & witness",
      "hope": "A tradition can claim continuity of witness across languages, media, and persecution.",
      "usDeclaration": "Political analog: candid world as witness of grievances.",
      "divergence": "Canon lists, martyr narratives (e.g. Rogers), contested translations, later authorized editions.",
      "historicalArc": [
        {
          "year": -100,
          "note": "Plural manuscript witnesses (Qumran-type)."
        },
        {
          "year": 1537,
          "note": "Matthew Bible node; Rogers later martyred (1555)."
        },
        {
          "year": 1611,
          "note": "Authorized English convergence."
        },
        {
          "year": 1776,
          "note": "Political witness to a candid world — different domain, shared publicity form."
        }
      ],
      "documentIds": [
        "matthew-bible",
        "tyndale-nt",
        "kjv-1611",
        "us-declaration-1776"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lineageIndex": "data/declaration/document-lineage.json"
}