{
  "schema": "kbatch-world-declarations-v1",
  "generated": "2026-07-24",
  "claim": "Open catalogue of civilization-shaping instruments · political · sacred-text · books · songs · law · substrates · theme tags for through-line research",
  "epistemic": "Metadata + theme tags for through-line research · full texts only when public-domain · verify primary national archives",
  "doctrine": [
    "Compare hopes for government and authority of text as stated in founding / transmitting instruments",
    "Track divergence of rule-based outlines and translation branches over time (gitgraph / ancestry style)",
    "Honor non-Western and Indigenous political traditions without forced equivalence",
    "Sacred-text trees are educational lineage maps — not denominational rankings or theological verdicts",
    "No copyrighted full-text dump of modern constitutions or copyrighted study Bibles",
    "Paleography of layered lines (stone, scroll, engrossed parchment) is a shared research substrate"
  ],
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "twelve-tables",
      "title": "Roman Twelve Tables tradition",
      "polity": "Rome",
      "year": -450,
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      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "public-inscription"
      ]
    },
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "justinian-corpus",
      "title": "Justinian Corpus Juris Civilis",
      "polity": "Byzantine Empire",
      "year": 533,
      "kind": "law-code",
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      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "authority-of-text",
        "reception-history"
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    },
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
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      "title": "Napoleonic Code (Code civil, 1804)",
      "polity": "France",
      "year": 1804,
      "kind": "law-code",
      "family": "law-codex",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "equality-claim",
        "export-model"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "gilgamesh",
      "title": "Epic of Gilgamesh",
      "polity": "Mesopotamia",
      "year": -1800,
      "kind": "epic",
      "family": "literature",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "mortality",
        "kingship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "iliad-odyssey",
      "title": "Homeric Iliad & Odyssey tradition",
      "polity": "Classical Greece",
      "year": -700,
      "kind": "epic",
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        "epic-narrative",
        "oral-written",
        "education"
      ],
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    },
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "ramayana-mahabharata",
      "title": "Rāmāyaṇa & Mahābhārata epic traditions",
      "polity": "South Asia",
      "year": -400,
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        "epic-narrative",
        "dharma-politics",
        "oral-written"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "one-thousand-nights",
      "title": "One Thousand and One Nights frame tradition",
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      "year": 900,
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        "narrative-form",
        "translation-branch"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "beowulf",
      "title": "Beowulf (OE epic manuscript tradition)",
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      "year": 1000,
      "kind": "epic",
      "family": "literature",
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        "epic-narrative",
        "manuscript-culture"
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      "kbatchSurface": "/labs/living-books"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
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      "title": "The Tale of Genji (Murasaki tradition)",
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      "year": 1008,
      "kind": "novel-classic",
      "family": "literature",
      "rights": "public-domain-translations",
      "themes": [
        "book-culture",
        "court-culture"
      ]
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "dante-commedia",
      "title": "Dante · Divine Comedy",
      "polity": "Italy",
      "year": 1320,
      "kind": "epic-poem",
      "family": "literature",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "vernacular-access",
        "cosmology",
        "book-culture"
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    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "journey-to-west",
      "title": "Journey to the West (Xiyouji tradition)",
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      "year": 1592,
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        "narrative-form",
        "print-culture"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
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        "drama",
        "english-canon"
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      "year": -400,
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        "state-ethics",
        "education",
        "ritual-order"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
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      "title": "Plato · Republic (tradition)",
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      "year": -375,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
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        "justice-theory",
        "political-form",
        "education"
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      "kbatchSurface": "/labs/living-books"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "aristotle-politics",
      "title": "Aristotle · Politics / Ethics tradition",
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      "year": -350,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
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        "political-form",
        "virtue",
        "constitution-types"
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      "languageOriginal": "multi",
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      "polity": "China",
      "year": -300,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "philosophy-source",
        "statecraft"
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      "id": "magna-carta-1215",
      "title": "Magna Carta (1215 tradition)",
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      "year": 1215,
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      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
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        "rule-outline",
        "limits-on-ruler",
        "due-process",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "la",
      "note": "Medieval charter memory in later Atlantic rights discourse"
    },
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      "title": "English Bill of Rights (1689)",
      "polity": "England",
      "year": 1689,
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        "rule-outline",
        "parliamentary-path",
        "limits-on-ruler",
        "speech-press"
      ],
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        "magna-carta-1215"
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      "title": "United States Declaration of Independence",
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      "kind": "independence-declaration",
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        "popular-sovereignty",
        "natural-rights",
        "right-of-revolution",
        "equality-claim",
        "consent-of-governed",
        "grievance-catalogue",
        "independent-states"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "note": "Engrossed Matlack hand · KBatch full archival edition",
      "family": "political"
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      "title": "Constitution of the United States",
      "polity": "United States",
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      "kind": "constitution",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "primarySource": "https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript",
      "themes": [
        "separation-of-powers",
        "federalism",
        "enumerated-powers",
        "amendment-process",
        "supremacy-clause",
        "republican-form"
      ],
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      ],
      "note": "Rule outline that implements (and constrains) revolutionary claims",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "france-rights-man-1789",
      "title": "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen",
      "polity": "France",
      "year": 1789,
      "kind": "rights-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "primarySource": "https://www.elysee.fr/en/french-presidency/the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-and-of-the-citizen",
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        "equality-claim",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "law-as-expression",
        "property",
        "resistance-to-oppression"
      ],
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        "us-declaration-1776"
      ],
      "note": "Atlantic revolutionary through-line · different institutional settlement",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "us-bill-of-rights-1791",
      "title": "United States Bill of Rights",
      "polity": "United States",
      "year": 1791,
      "kind": "rights-amendments",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "primarySource": "https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript",
      "themes": [
        "speech-press",
        "religion",
        "arms",
        "due-process",
        "jury",
        "reserved-powers"
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      "family": "political"
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      "id": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "title": "Haitian Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Haiti",
      "year": 1804,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
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        "abolition-freedom",
        "anti-colonial",
        "sovereignty",
        "racial-liberation",
        "right-of-revolution"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "fr",
      "relatedTo": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "france-rights-man-1789"
      ],
      "note": "First Black republic · extends and critiques Atlantic liberty claims",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "venezuela-1811",
      "title": "Venezuelan Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Venezuela",
      "year": 1811,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "independent-states",
        "spanish-american"
      ],
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      ],
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "mexico-1821",
      "title": "Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire",
      "polity": "Mexico",
      "year": 1821,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "sovereignty",
        "religion-order",
        "spanish-american"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "es",
      "family": "political"
    },
    {
      "id": "greece-1822",
      "title": "Greek Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Greece",
      "year": 1822,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "anti-imperial",
        "religion-nation",
        "popular-sovereignty"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "el",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "texas-1836",
      "title": "Texas Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Republic of Texas",
      "year": 1836,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "grievance-catalogue",
        "right-of-revolution",
        "self-government"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "relatedTo": [
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      ],
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "liberia-1847",
      "title": "Declaration of Independence of Liberia",
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      "year": 1847,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "equality-claim",
        "anti-slavery-settlement",
        "self-government",
        "diaspora-state"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "relatedTo": [
        "us-declaration-1776"
      ],
      "family": "political"
    },
    {
      "id": "hungary-1849",
      "title": "Hungarian Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Hungary",
      "year": 1849,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "constitutionalism",
        "anti-imperial"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "hu",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "canada-1867-bna",
      "title": "British North America Act / Constitution Act 1867 (preamble tradition)",
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      "year": 1867,
      "kind": "constitution",
      "family": "political",
      "rights": "government-text-check-license",
      "themes": [
        "federalism",
        "rule-outline",
        "parliamentary-path"
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      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "note": "Dominion constitutional path · later Charter 1982 layer"
    },
    {
      "id": "philippines-1898",
      "title": "Philippine Declaration of Independence (1898)",
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      "year": 1898,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "family": "political",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "national-self-determination"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "es"
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      "id": "china-1912",
      "title": "Provisional Constitution / Republic of China founding instruments (1912 era)",
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      "year": 1912,
      "kind": "founding-instrument",
      "family": "political",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "republican-form",
        "rule-outline"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "zh",
      "note": "Metadata scaffold · verify official republic-era texts for critical work"
    },
    {
      "id": "ireland-1916",
      "title": "Proclamation of the Irish Republic",
      "polity": "Ireland",
      "year": 1916,
      "kind": "independence-proclamation",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "equality-claim",
        "sovereignty",
        "republican-form"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "finland-1917",
      "title": "Finnish Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Finland",
      "year": 1917,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "sovereignty",
        "parliamentary-path"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "fi",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "estonia-1918",
      "title": "Estonian Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Estonia",
      "year": 1918,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "democracy",
        "sovereignty"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "et",
      "family": "political"
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    {
      "id": "czechoslovakia-1918",
      "title": "Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Czechoslovakia",
      "year": 1918,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "democracy",
        "equality-claim"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "cs",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "indonesia-1945",
      "title": "Indonesian Proclamation of Independence",
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      "year": 1945,
      "kind": "independence-proclamation",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "sovereignty",
        "national-self-determination"
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      "languageOriginal": "id",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "vietnam-1945",
      "title": "Vietnamese Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Vietnam",
      "year": 1945,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "equality-claim",
        "right-of-revolution",
        "popular-sovereignty"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "vi",
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        "france-rights-man-1789"
      ],
      "note": "Explicitly cites US and French rights language · anti-colonial inversion",
      "family": "political"
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      "id": "un-charter-1945",
      "title": "Charter of the United Nations (1945)",
      "polity": "United Nations",
      "year": 1945,
      "kind": "international-charter",
      "family": "political",
      "rights": "un-publication-terms",
      "themes": [
        "sovereignty",
        "peace",
        "human-rights-seed",
        "rule-outline"
      ],
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      "id": "israel-1948",
      "title": "Israeli Declaration of Independence",
      "polity": "Israel",
      "year": 1948,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "rights": "public-domain-in-part",
      "themes": [
        "national-self-determination",
        "equality-claim",
        "refuge",
        "democracy",
        "sovereignty"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "he",
      "note": "Verify official Hebrew text for critical work",
      "family": "political"
    },
    {
      "id": "un-udhr-1948",
      "title": "Universal Declaration of Human Rights",
      "polity": "United Nations",
      "year": 1948,
      "kind": "international-rights",
      "rights": "un-publication-terms",
      "primarySource": "https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights",
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        "equality-claim",
        "dignity",
        "speech-press",
        "due-process",
        "asylum"
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      "languageOriginal": "multilingual",
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        "us-declaration-1776"
      ],
      "note": "Post-war universalization · not a national independence act",
      "family": "political"
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    {
      "id": "oas-american-declaration-1948",
      "title": "American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (1948)",
      "polity": "Organization of American States",
      "year": 1948,
      "kind": "regional-rights",
      "family": "political",
      "rights": "oas-publication-terms",
      "themes": [
        "natural-rights",
        "duties",
        "equality-claim",
        "dignity"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "multilingual"
    },
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      "id": "india-1950-preamble",
      "title": "Constitution of India — Preamble",
      "polity": "India",
      "year": 1950,
      "kind": "constitution-preamble",
      "rights": "government-text-check-license",
      "themes": [
        "justice",
        "liberty",
        "equality-claim",
        "fraternity",
        "sovereignty",
        "secular-democratic-republic"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "note": "Modern constitution · full text licensing varies by jurisdiction — use official GOI sources",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "african-charter-1981",
      "title": "African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul, 1981)",
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      "kind": "regional-rights",
      "family": "political",
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        "peoples-rights",
        "equality-claim",
        "anti-colonial",
        "dignity"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "multilingual",
      "note": "Peoples' rights layer · regional divergence from purely individualist rights lists"
    },
    {
      "id": "south-africa-1996-preamble",
      "title": "Constitution of South Africa — Preamble",
      "polity": "South Africa",
      "year": 1996,
      "kind": "constitution-preamble",
      "rights": "government-text-check-license",
      "themes": [
        "dignity",
        "equality-claim",
        "non-racialism",
        "democracy",
        "heal-divisions",
        "rule-of-law"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "note": "Post-apartheid settlement · divergence from colonial charters",
      "family": "political"
    },
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      "id": "eu-charter-2000",
      "title": "Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union",
      "polity": "European Union",
      "year": 2000,
      "kind": "supranational-rights",
      "rights": "eu-publication-terms",
      "themes": [
        "dignity",
        "freedoms",
        "equality-claim",
        "solidarity",
        "citizens-rights",
        "justice"
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      "languageOriginal": "multilingual",
      "note": "Supranational layer over national constitutions",
      "family": "political"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "vedic-corpus",
      "title": "Vedic & Upaniṣadic corpus (metadata)",
      "polity": "South Asia",
      "year": -1000,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "metadata-only",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written",
        "philosophy-source"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "confucian-classics",
      "title": "Confucian Four Books & Five Classics tradition",
      "polity": "China",
      "year": -400,
      "kind": "classics-corpus",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "exam-culture",
        "authority-of-text",
        "state-ethics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "septuagint",
      "title": "Septuagint (LXX) tradition",
      "polity": "Hellenistic Jewish / early Christian transmission",
      "year": -250,
      "kind": "translation-tradition",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "el"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "pali-canon",
      "title": "Pāli Canon / Tipiṭaka transmission",
      "polity": "Theravāda Asia",
      "year": -100,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain-translations",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vulgate",
      "title": "Latin Vulgate tradition",
      "polity": "Western Church Latin culture",
      "year": 405,
      "kind": "translation-tradition",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "catechism-circles",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "la"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "quran-transmission",
      "title": "Qurʾān manuscript & recitation transmission",
      "polity": "Early Islamic world",
      "year": 650,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "metadata-only",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "note": "Educational metadata only · no full-text scrape"
    },
    {
      "id": "tyndale-nt",
      "title": "Tyndale New Testament (1526+)",
      "polity": "England / exile print",
      "year": 1526,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "vernacular-access",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "coverdale-bible",
      "title": "Coverdale Bible (1535)",
      "polity": "England",
      "year": 1535,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "matthew-bible",
      "title": "Matthew Bible (1537) · John Rogers / Thomas Matthew",
      "polity": "England",
      "year": 1537,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "print-culture",
        "martyr-witness",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "aliases": [
        "John Rogers Bible",
        "Martyrs Bible (Rogers)"
      ],
      "relatedTo": [
        "tyndale-nt",
        "coverdale-bible",
        "great-bible",
        "kjv-1611"
      ],
      "note": "Major English branch: Tyndale+Coverdale → Rogers compilation → Great Bible / later KJV convergence. Educational lineage."
    },
    {
      "id": "great-bible",
      "title": "Great Bible (1539)",
      "polity": "England",
      "year": 1539,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "relatedTo": [
        "matthew-bible"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "geneva-bible",
      "title": "Geneva Bible (1560)",
      "polity": "English exile / Geneva",
      "year": 1560,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "catechism-circles",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "kjv-1611",
      "title": "King James / Authorized Version (1611)",
      "polity": "England",
      "year": 1611,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "rights": "public-domain",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "en",
      "relatedTo": [
        "matthew-bible",
        "geneva-bible",
        "great-bible"
      ],
      "note": "Convergence node of earlier English branches"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "gregorian-chant",
      "title": "Gregorian chant / plainchant tradition",
      "polity": "Latin Europe",
      "year": 800,
      "kind": "liturgical-song",
      "family": "song",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written"
      ],
      "note": "No commercial score dump"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "folk-ballad-broadsheet",
      "title": "Folk ballad & broadsheet song culture",
      "polity": "Europe / Atlantic",
      "year": 1600,
      "kind": "popular-song",
      "family": "song",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "print-culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "national-anthem-tradition",
      "title": "National anthem & civic hymn tradition",
      "polity": "Nation-states",
      "year": 1792,
      "kind": "civic-song",
      "family": "song",
      "rights": "varies-by-work",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "nation-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "african-american-spirituals",
      "title": "African American spirituals & work-song lineage",
      "polity": "United States / diaspora",
      "year": 1860,
      "kind": "sacred-folk-song",
      "family": "song",
      "rights": "historical-pd-era",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "liberation-hope",
        "oral-written"
      ],
      "note": "Honor living tradition · no pirate lyrics"
    },
    {
      "id": "stone-carved-law",
      "title": "Stone-carved law & public edicts (comparative type)",
      "polity": "Ancient Near East / comparative",
      "year": -1750,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "family": "substrate",
      "rights": "public-domain-historical",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "public-inscription",
        "layered-lines",
        "rule-outline"
      ],
      "languageOriginal": "multiple",
      "note": "Type node for carved public law · not a single polity claim"
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "oracle-bone-china",
      "title": "Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions",
      "polity": "Shang",
      "year": -1200,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "family": "substrate",
      "rights": "public-domain-metadata",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "divination-archive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "ashoka-edicts",
      "title": "Ashoka rock & pillar edicts",
      "polity": "Maurya",
      "year": -250,
      "kind": "public-edict",
      "family": "substrate",
      "rights": "public-domain-metadata",
      "themes": [
        "public-inscription",
        "dharma-politics",
        "authority-of-text"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "music-staff-notation",
      "title": "Western staff notation lineage",
      "polity": "Medieval Europe",
      "year": 1025,
      "kind": "music-writing",
      "family": "substrate",
      "rights": "public-domain-theory",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "languageOriginal": "multi",
      "id": "gutenberg-print",
      "title": "Gutenberg print revolution (c. 1450s)",
      "polity": "Mainz / Europe",
      "year": 1455,
      "kind": "print-substrate",
      "family": "substrate",
      "rights": "public-domain-metadata",
      "themes": [
        "print-culture",
        "vernacular-access",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "note": "Mass branch factor for books & Bibles"
    }
  ],
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "political",
      "label": "Political founding instruments"
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-text",
      "label": "Sacred / catechetical transmission"
    },
    {
      "id": "substrate",
      "label": "Layered-line substrates"
    },
    {
      "id": "law-codex",
      "label": "Law codices & edicts",
      "note": "Systematic rule books · public edicts"
    },
    {
      "id": "philosophy",
      "label": "Philosophy & wisdom books",
      "note": "Axial / classical works shaping political language"
    },
    {
      "id": "literature",
      "label": "Literature · epic · book culture",
      "note": "Civilization-shaping narrative works"
    },
    {
      "id": "song",
      "label": "Song · chant · anthem lineage",
      "note": "Voice traditions · PD historical · no lyric pirate"
    }
  ],
  "lineageIndex": "data/declaration/document-lineage.json"
}