"Subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is not a geographic accident; it is a verified legal status.
The Allegiance Gate Protocol is a Zero-Trust framework enforcing the 14th Amendment’s Jurisdiction Clause. It mandates a hardware-locked pairing of birth records and SSA enumeration. Using TPM 2.0, AES-256-GCM, and air-gapped logic, it programmatically blocks citizenship issuance unless parental allegiance is verified via formal assurance.
This repository defines the technical standards for a Zero-Trust Citizenship Issuance Pipeline.
- Zero-Trust Execution: No command is trusted; all inputs are validated against the Allegiance Policy Engine.
- Deterministic Control: Logic gates for citizenship issuance are state-constrained to prevent "Status Leaks."
- Physical Isolation: The Allegiance Verification logic runs on air-gapped execution pathways, separated from public-facing hospital networks.
- Cryptographic Integrity: All telemetry is encrypted via AES-256-GCM with TPM 2.0 attestation to ensure hardware-level non-repudiation.
This protocol implements the historical common law meaning of Allegiance over mere Domicile, citing:
- Slaughter-House Cases (1873): Requiring allegiance "not merely partial."
- Elk v. Wilkins (1884): Establishing that birth on soil does not satisfy jurisdiction if a prior foreign allegiance exists.
- 1866 Congressional Records: Explicitly excluding children of temporary visitors or those not fully subject to U.S. political authority.
/docs/LEGAL_PRECEDENT.md: Analysis of historical common law and ratification debates./specs/SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md: Technical flow of SSA/Vital Statistics integration./security/HARDENING_GUIDE.md: Details on TPM 2.0 and air-gap requirements./schema/ALLEGIANCE_FLAG.json: The formal data structure for the verification handshake.
This project is licensed under the MIT License for technical schemas and CC BY-SA 4.0 for policy documentation.