Problems still unresolved

Whether voluntary labour reaches the hardest work

Article 70 forbids compulsion absolutely and Article 115(3) answers a shortfall by cutting the hours attaching to a task, improving its conditions and expanding its training. Whether that suffices for night work in sanitation, care of the violently ill, or deep maintenance, sustained over decades, is untested. It has held since 1974 in a society with strong expectations about contribution and expectations are not a valid mechanism.

Whether the calculation answer actually works at scale

The negotiated cycle of Article 97 has been tested at eighteen million people, one language of administration, and a territory small enough that a delegate can cross it in a day. Whether it works at a hundred million, or across languages, or in a state without Fluid's habit of publishing things, is unknown.

Whether the reserve replaces what capital markets do

Article 105 funds new cooperatives and experiment, and admits the failure of an experiment as a cost of the plan. The Republic still imports more technique than it exports, and has done since 1954. Whether that is the embargo, the size of the country, or something the design does badly has never been separated out.

Whether the residual token stays residual

Article 111 makes the token personal, equal, expiring and untradeable, and Article 111(6) makes its abolition an objective. During the Long Winter, grey allocation by acquaintance was widespread and Article 113 had not been written. The new allocation rules have not yet met a real shortage.

Whether external dependence falls

Article 301(5) requires a public inventory of every external dependence with a plan for ending each one. The first inventory is due within a year of commencement. Listing a dependency does not remove it, and some of the entries, in pharmaceutical precursors and in semiconductor fabrication, have no domestic answer at any price the ecological budgets allow.

What is done when the need precedes the alternative

The question applies to a medicine or instrument with no precedent in the Republic that is required on the day a patient presents, and an open or reverse-engineered equivalent appears years afterward.

Article 10(2) prohibits exclusive rights over the use of knowledge and Article 109(4) permits no device that has software its user cannot examine or that can be disabled remotely, and the organic law on external trade provides a procedure for an instrument for which no conforming equivalent exists.

Whether the Constitution supports that procedure has not been decided. Article 301(4) requires documentation of foreign technique and replacement by domestic capacity, and Article 299 authorises an import upon a stated terminal date; Article 109(4) admits no exception in terms, and Article 299(6) limits a licence by reference to Article 117(3) and Article 300 alone.

Article 17 required a check by the Constitutional Chamber before the organic law was adopted, and no proceeding under Article 43 has yet put the question to the Court, so the procedure operates upon patients without a ruling on its validity.

Whether the steady state can be enforced

Article 22 caps throughput and Article 22(3) forbids spending efficiency gains on expansion, which closes the rebound effect by law. No budget has yet been published: the first are due in 2028 under Article 329(2). The first time a ceiling stops something people want, the design will be tested properly for the first time.

Whether repair outruns damage

The Vandorum replanting began in 1983 on a hundred-year schedule and is behind it. The Marnaqui is recovering. Coastal retreat at Ravelluri is not being stopped, only managed. Ecological timescales are longer than political ones, and Article 256 exists because somebody has to speak for the people who will inherit the difference.