Civilian Sovereignty Framework · Cordova 2028
Ending corporate surveillance, behavioral manipulation, and the sale of American civilian data. A complete three-instrument framework — Executive Order, federal statute, and Constitutional Amendment — closing every gap no existing law addresses.
What the American People Have Said — Consistently, Across Party Lines
84%
support stricter federal data privacy laws
79%
concerned about how their data is used
73%
say they lack adequate control over their data
80%
say government needs a warrant before buying location data
They are not confused. They are not divided. They have been waiting for a government that listens. This framework listens.
Every gap that has allowed the surveillance economy to operate without legal constraint.
Gap 1: The Constitutional Gap
Bill of Rights protections extended to every entity at any scale — no population threshold, no minimum size.
Gap 2: The Threshold Floor
All thresholds eliminated. Prohibition applies to every entity regardless of size, revenue, or federal contract status.
Gap 3: The Fragmentation Loophole
Structuring across entities to evade prohibition is an independent violation. Aggregate activity of affiliated entities treated as one. PE firms and institutional holders jointly and severally liable.
Gap 4: The Public-Private Surveillance Loophole
Closed on Day One — domestic and foreign. The government cannot acquire offshore what it is prohibited from collecting at home.
Gap 5: The Manipulation Gap
Psychological manipulation prohibited as a standalone category — engineered emotional states, filter bubbles, vulnerability exploitation, manufactured division. Non-waivable by any contract.
Gap 6: The Foreign Entity Gap
Incorporating offshore does not exempt any entity. Exporting data for offshore processing does not circumvent the prohibition. Foreign governments and intelligence services cannot purchase American civilian data.
Gap 7: The Data Sale Gap
Absolute ban on psychological vulnerability data sales. Transaction-level consent required for every sale. Recursive resale liability. National Do Not Sell Registry. National Data Transaction Registry.
Nine governing principles across three instruments: Executive Order (Day One), American Civilian Sovereignty Act (90 Days), Constitutional Amendment (Year One).
The Core Principle
Constitutional protections must be equally applicable to both. A three-person data broker and a trillion-dollar platform are equally prohibited from conducting mass civilian surveillance without consent. Any threshold creates a floor that PE firms and institutional holders will engineer their portfolio companies to stay below. This framework has no threshold, no floor, and no minimum scale.
The Data Broker Industry
These companies hold files on virtually every American adult — location history, purchasing behavior, health inferences, financial stress indicators, relationship status, political engagement patterns, and psychological profiles derived from behavioral data. They sell to advertisers, insurers, employers, landlords, political campaigns, and through a legal loophole, to government agencies. No federal law currently prohibits any of this. The Cordova framework closes every gap at all three levels simultaneously.
Affiliate and Network Liability
PE firms and institutional holders that construct or finance surveillance networks across multiple entities are jointly and severally liable for the aggregate activity of those networks — to the same extent as if they had conducted the surveillance directly. A 5% equity stake or board appointment rights triggers presumptive liability. Corporate separateness is not a defense. The investor owns the outcome.
Anti-Fragmentation
Private equity firms deliberately fragment surveillance operations across multiple smaller entities — each individually below any regulatory threshold — to maintain full aggregate surveillance capability while ensuring no single entity is technically subject to the prohibition. This framework treats surveillance fragmentation with the same legal seriousness as financial structuring to evade anti-money laundering law. The deliberate structure is the crime, independent of the underlying surveillance.
The Public-Private Surveillance Loophole
Federal agencies — DHS, FBI, DEA, IRS, and elements of the Intelligence Community — have responded to constitutional constraint not by complying with it but by routing around it. They purchase from private data brokers information they cannot legally collect directly. This loophole closes on Day One — and is extended to cover foreign routing: the government cannot acquire offshore what it is prohibited from collecting at home. No foreign government or intelligence service may purchase, receive, or act upon American civilian data for surveillance purposes.
The Right to an Unmanipulated Mind
No entity may deploy any system, algorithm, or AI mechanism to deliberately engineer emotional states — fear, anger, anxiety, social isolation — in individuals or populations. No entity may construct filter bubbles designed to restrict what individuals can see and know, exploit psychological vulnerabilities for commercial or political targeting, operate sentiment manipulation campaigns that amplify division or demoralization, or generate synthetic deceptive content to alter beliefs at scale. These prohibitions are not waivable by any terms of service, user agreement, or consent form. The right to an unmanipulated mind cannot be contracted away.
American Civilian Data Is Not a Commodity
The sale of psychological vulnerability data — grief indicators, fear profiles, addiction vulnerability scores, financial desperation markers, manipulation susceptibility assessments — is prohibited absolutely. No exceptions. No consent workaround. No commercial justification. Every resale of civilian data creates independent liability that travels with the data through every transaction in the resale chain. The National Do Not Sell Registry gives every American a free, permanent, one-registration mechanism to stop the sale of their data everywhere. The National Data Transaction Registry makes the supply chain visible — every American can see every transaction involving their data.
The Constitutional People's Counsel
New executive agencies can be captured, defunded, or weaponized against the states and the public by future administrations. The Constitutional People's Counsel is an officer of Congress — not of the executive branch. No President can remove, redirect, or defund it unilaterally. Appointed by joint resolution for a single seven-year term, removable only by impeachment, funded by mandatory appropriation. It has independent standing to sue any entity — any corporation, any federal agency, any state government — in any federal court without authorization from any branch of government. It reports fully publicly to Congress every quarter. No administration can suppress its findings.
The Constitutional Amendment
The American Civilian Sovereignty Amendment closes the gap that has allowed the surveillance economy to operate without constitutional constraint — establishing that the rights protecting Americans from government overreach apply equally to every corporation, platform, and AI system operating at population scale. It permanently establishes that American civilian data is not a commodity, that the right to an unmanipulated mind is a fundamental constitutional right non-waivable by any contract, and that the Constitutional People's Counsel is constitutionally protected from executive removal or defunding. This is the ceiling. The Executive Order and the Act are the floor.
| Action | Timeline |
|---|---|
| Executive Order signed | Day 1 |
| Public-private loophole closure effective | Day 1 |
| No-threshold prohibition effective | Day 1 |
| Affiliate liability and anti-fragmentation effective | Day 1 |
| Anti-manipulation prohibition effective | Day 1 |
| Absolute ban on psychological vulnerability data sales | Day 1 |
| DNI review of Intelligence Community arrangements | 30 days |
| OMB identification of violating contracts | 30 days |
| Contract terminations | 60 days |
| FAR amendment rulemaking initiated | 60 days |
| American Civilian Sovereignty Act submitted to Congress | 90 days |
| People's Counsel appointment process begins | 90 days |
| Constitutional Amendment proposed to Congress | Year 1 |
| All violating federal contracts terminated | Year 1 |
No single actor controls the enforcement mechanism. No single administration can shut it down.
Constitutional People's Counsel
Independent litigation on behalf of the public against any entity — corporate, federal, or state. Cannot be removed, redirected, or defunded by any President.
Federal Trade Commission
Primary civil enforcement against corporate violations under existing statutory authority, expanded by the Act.
Department of Justice
Civil and criminal prosecution of violations — including criminal penalties up to 15 years for knowing violations by officers and directors.
State Attorneys General
Concurrent state-level enforcement on behalf of their residents. Federal enforcement does not preempt state action.
Inspectors General
Internal agency oversight, reporting directly to Congress and the Constitutional People's Counsel on compliance.
Private Right of Action
Any American civilian may sue any entity for violations. No arbitration clause or class action waiver may block these claims.