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# Constitution consultation

## Constitution consultation

The Cardano Constitution was not drafted in a boardroom. Over 2024 the Civics Committee coordinated [**more than 60 community-run Constitutional Workshops**](https://intersectmbo.org/news/celebrating-the-journey-constitutional-workshops)**, in over 50 countries on all six inhabited continents**, from Lagos to Lima, Seoul to Sydney, and Tallinn to Toronto. Each workshop elected a delegate and an alternate to carry its community's conclusions into the drafting of the Constitution. It was the committee's single largest coordination effort.

#### The reach

|                           |                                     |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Workshops                 | 63 with recorded delegate elections |
| Countries and territories | 51                                  |
| Continents                | 6 (all inhabited)                   |

#### How it worked

* The Civics committee opened a [**grant programme**](https://docs.intersectmbo.org/intersect-knowledge-base/archive/cardano-budget-archive/intersect-operational-services/2024-intersect-cdh-and-grant-contracts/2024-cdh-grants/closed-grants/constitutional-workshops) through Intersect (23 May 2024) and funded the workshops, each electing a delegate and an alternate to represent its community (13 June 2024).
* A **two-day drafting session** in [July 2024](https://committees.docs.intersectmbo.org/intersect-civics-committee/meeting-minutes/2024-civics-meeting-minutes/civics-meeting-minutes-july-18-2024) produced the question set every workshop worked from, covering principles and tenets, amendments, the Constitutional Committee, financial sustainability, dispute resolution, the voting model and DReps.
* The committee **certified the delegate elections** and analysed the output (5 September 2024), which fed **five regional delegate synthesis workshops**, including a hybrid in-person and virtual session in Costa Rica (7 November 2024).
* [The **Constitutional Convention**](https://www.iog.io/news/from-convention-to-ratification-the-cardano-constitution) in Argentina in December 2024 finalised the draft, an undertaking that included securing a venue through repeated site visits and coordinating international travel and visas for delegates from around the world.

#### Outputs

The process produced the [Draft Constitution](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYFzjrRjf7rkBrLRjPi51AyzbZBajrmZ/view?usp=drive_link) and the [Cardano Tenets](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wGTiTkVMWBel_kTfqNrHAl2irphBXD_3/view), along with a [Constitutional Debt Backlog](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bmethc-6Ww7JwVIpRPkBHaeUN8Hrln1bIggry4NJYXI/edit?usp=sharing) recording the issues raised but not resolved during drafting, so that later amendment work would have a record to pick up.

[The Constitution governance action](https://adastat.net/governances/8c653ee5c9800e6d31e79b5a7f7d4400c81d44717ad4db633dc18d4c07e4a4fd00) went on-chain in January 2025.


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