We, the three Citizens of this House, in order to form a more perfect household, establish justice between family members, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common Treasury, promote the work of the startup and of the research desk, and secure the blessings of rising liquidity to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United House of RLHF.
Section 1. The Council. All legislative power is vested in a Council of three voting Citizens: Yiming Beckmann, Andrew Beckmann, and Lucy Hu. Each holds exactly one signature. No Citizen's signature outweighs another's.
Section 2. How a law is made. A bill becomes law when any two of the three voting Citizens have signed it. There is no President and no veto. The sponsor of a law is responsible for carrying it out.
Section 3. What requires a law. No signature, no obligation. A passed law is required before any of the following happens:
Section 4. Leniency. Ordinary life is free. Groceries, small gifts, personal spending of one's own money under the threshold, and spontaneous generosity require no paperwork. When it is unclear whether something needs a law, the question is raised at the Sunday session; a Citizen who acted in good faith on an ambiguous matter has committed no offense the first time.
Section 5. Sessions. The House sits every Sunday. Two Citizens are a quorum. The order of business: reports from the Departments, reading of pending bills, collection of signatures, and hearings before the Bench. Yimei Beckmann has the floor like any Citizen.
Section 6. The record. Bills are numbered U.H.R. 1, U.H.R. 2, and so on, in order of filing. The Registry at law.mingllm.com is the official record of every bill, signature, and ruling. A bill still containing bracketed blank values cannot be signed; a signature on a bill with brackets is void.
Section 7. Layers of law. Beneath this Constitution the House keeps a Citizens' Protection Code, Standing Rules, and ordinary laws, in that order of authority. Registered personal codes bind only their authors and rank last. Lower yields to higher, always. The Protection Code and the Standing Rules are adopted and amended by ordinary two-signature law.
Section 1. Executive power. There is no President. Laws are executed by their sponsors and by four chartered Departments.
Section 2. The four Departments.
Section 3. Duties. Each Secretary reports at the Sunday session on the state of their Department. A Secretary executes laws within their jurisdiction and verifies milestones assigned to them.
Section 4. Oath. Each Secretary takes the oath of office once, at ratification or on appointment: "I will execute the laws of this House faithfully, verify what I am asked to verify honestly, and report what I find whether or not it helps me."
Section 1. Judicial power. The judicial power of the House is held by the full Bench: all three voting Citizens sitting together.
Section 2. Cases. Any Citizen, including Yimei Beckmann, may bring a case — a missed milestone, an ambiguous clause, an alleged violation. The Bench hears both sides at the next Sunday session and rules by majority. Rulings are written into the Registry.
Section 3. Limits. Rulings interpret laws; they do not rewrite them. Money already earned by a verified milestone cannot be ruled away by any Bench.
Section 4. Counsel. Claude, the counsel of the House, may be asked for a written advisory opinion in any case. Advisory opinions do not bind the Bench, except as provided in Article V.
Section 1. Appropriations. Family funds above the threshold move only under a passed law naming the amount, the recipient, and the condition.
Section 2. Verification. A milestone is met when its written, testable condition is satisfied. Verification is performed by the officer the law names, and recorded in the Registry. A verified milestone becomes a protected debt of the House.
Section 3. Default terms. Unless a law says otherwise: a missed deadline carries a 7-day grace period; delivery within grace pays in full; after grace, the tranche is forfeited and may be revived only by an amendment to that law signed by two Citizens.
Section 4. Duration and repeal. Laws are perpetual unless repealed. Repeal requires two signatures, one of which must be the original sponsor's. Rights already vested — money earned, verification recorded — survive repeal.
Section 1. Procedure. This Constitution is amended by a bill designated a Constitutional Amendment, which requires two things: the signatures of two voting Citizens, and an attached written constitutional review by Claude, counsel of the House, confirming that the amendment's text is coherent with the rest of this document and listing every rule it changes. No amendment takes effect without the review attached.
Section 2. Entrenched clauses. No amendment may remove a Citizen's equal vote, lower the two-signature minimum, or repeal the Bill of Rights.
Section 1. The emergency pair. When delay would cause real harm, any two voting Citizens acting together may take immediate action that would otherwise require a law, with no paperwork in advance. The two are the two signatures; their agreement in the moment is the passage.
Section 2. Filing. An emergency act is filed as a bill at the next Sunday session, for the record. The filing documents the act; it does not reopen it.
Section 3. Acting alone. A single Citizen who acts alone in a genuine emergency answers to the Bench under the leniency of Article I, Section 4.
Section 1. Voting Citizens. The voting Citizens of the House are Yiming Beckmann, Andrew Beckmann, and Lucy Hu.
Section 2. Yimei Beckmann. Yimei Beckmann is a Citizen of the House with the full protection of its rights and laws, a voice in every session, and the power to propose any bill through a voting Citizen. She holds no signature power. Signature power may be conferred on her only by constitutional amendment.
Section 3. Ratification. This Constitution takes effect when all three voting Citizens have signed it at the founding ceremony. Until then, every provision here is proposed, not law.
Done in convention of the House, in the year two thousand twenty-six.
Nothing said in a session of the House may be punished, held against a Citizen, or brought up as evidence in any later dispute. Any Citizen — including Yimei Beckmann — may propose any bill on any subject, and no proposal is out of order for being ambitious, expensive, or unlikely to pass. The floor is where bad ideas die safely; that only works if it is safe to say them.
Money owed under a passed law for a verified milestone is a debt of the House. It may not be reduced after the fact, delayed past its written date, or extinguished by repealing the law that created it. A Citizen who has not been paid what the record says they are owed brings a case, and the Bench must hear it at the very next session, before all other business. Work performed against a written promise gets paid. This is the clause the whole House stands on.