id: K9
number: 9
title: Emergency Procedure
layer: kernel
notes: >-
  Emergency powers are where constitutions die. This article makes the
  expedited path narrow, expensive, self-expiring, and incapable of
  touching the clauses that would let it entrench itself.
clauses:
  - id: K9.1
    title: Expedited proposals
    text: >-
      An emergency proposal may open voting immediately upon becoming
      open, with a voting window in hours rather than days. It is ratified
      only at the emergency thresholds, which are stricter than the
      major-class thresholds in approval and participation.
    parameters:
      emergency_voting_hours:
        type: integer
        value: 48
        forkable: true
        min: 24
        max: 96
      emergency_quorum:
        type: ratio
        value: "3/5"
        forkable: false
      emergency_approval:
        type: ratio
        value: "2/3"
        forkable: false
  - id: K9.2
    title: Automatic sunset
    text: >-
      Every provision ratified by emergency procedure expires
      automatically after the sunset period unless re-ratified through the
      ordinary procedure of Articles 3 through 5 before it expires. The
      gate must refuse any emergency proposal lacking a sunset.
    parameters:
      emergency_sunset_days:
        type: integer
        value: 30
        forkable: false
  - id: K9.3
    title: Untouchable by emergency
    text: >-
      No emergency proposal may alter Article 2, Article 6, Article 7,
      Article 8, this Article 9, the invariants file, the registry, or any
      threshold parameter. The gate must block any emergency proposal
      whose diff touches these.