Institutional Record
The Institution
The Citizen Audit is governed by public rules before it asks anyone to trust its work. These documents define the institution, constrain its publications, and make its own conduct reviewable.
Founding documents
Why it exists
Public Charter
The purpose, scope, reader rights, transparency duties, correction duties, and amendment rules of the institution.
How it operates
Constitution
The operational rules that bind publications: evidence sovereignty, traceability, reproducibility, challenges, corrections, and publication gates.
Contributor ethic
The Oath
The professional pledge expected of contributors, reviewers, and future stewards.
Evidence standard
Citizen Standard
The public standard for evidence, neutrality, corrections, funding, and civic responsibility.
Accountability systems
Corrections
Errors remain visible. Corrections strengthen the record instead of hiding it.
Challenges
Readers can dispute claims by identifying the claim, evidence, proposed correction, and basis.
Unknowns Register
Known gaps, unresolved questions, missing evidence, and pending verification remain public.
Funding Independence
Support may fund the work but does not buy findings, suppress findings, or alter methodology.
Institutional posture
The Citizen Audit does not measure governments by ideology. It measures them by evidence. The institution's responsibility is not to make every reader agree. Its responsibility is to make the evidence, method, limitations, and correction trail visible enough for informed disagreement.