Constitutional Sovereignty Under No-Meta Drift

This paper develops a boundary theory of constitutional sovereignty for autonomous intelligences operating under no-meta and observable-only governance. The goal is not to freeze a fixed objective, but to define auditable conditions under which an intelligence can keep revising its own constitutional rules without collapsing semantic continuity, liberty, agenda autonomy, accountability, or physical viability. The constitution is modeled as a dynamic system across text, executable rules, and institutional process, with typed amendment events, exception channels, recovery routes, and certificate/logging commitments. The manuscript introduces operational metrics for constitutional influence, capture, mediation,…