Representation
Voicing the will or needs of others in an accountable way — always subordinate to direct Participation and Sovereignty.
The canon admits representation and demotes it in the same sentence. Someone must carry a body's voice to a table it cannot all attend; but the represented have not thereby handed over their standing, and the representative speaks for them only as far as they said, for as long as they say.
It is load-bearing precisely because it is the classic failure point. Representation is where nearly every democratic form has decayed: a voice carried becomes a voice owned, a delegate becomes a ruler, and the represented are reduced to periodic spectators. Naming it as subordinate — rather than as the normal mode of governance — is the canon's guard against that path.
The structural preference throughout is direct: one voice per person, decisions at the smallest competent scale, Consent taken from the people actually bound. Where representation is used, the protections are the ordinary ones made sharper — a narrow Mandate, short terms with rotation, visible reasoning, and instant revocability. Servant Leadership and no campaigning belong here too: a representative who must campaign to be chosen has already begun to represent themselves.
In play, a Cell meets it when it sends someone to speak for it at its Home or a Council. The discipline is to agree beforehand what that person may say yes to, and to have them bring anything beyond it back to the table.
Also called: speaking for Stands on: Participation · Sovereignty · Consent · Mandate · Accountability Opens onto: Delegation · Servant Leadership · Term Limits And Rotation · Impeachment · Federation · Democratic Self-Governance Through Shared Agreements and Wise Eldership In play: beyond — when one table sends a voice to another Sources: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon, Pillar II table (states: Work In Progress) · Democratic Self-Governance Through Shared Agreements and Wise Eldership (root page; one member one voice; no campaigning) · Levels of Participation (root page) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon Open: One Lexicon row; no page. How a federated body of thousands of tables actually assembles a voice — by representation, by rotation, by lot, or by sheet — is not settled anywhere found in this pass.