This repository contains a forkable template for authoring and publishing a textual constitution for a DAO or other Web3 organization. It also contains a copy of all current DAO constitutions from the Constitutions of Web3 data set.
For more information, go to the accompanying article at constitutions.metagov.org.
If you would like to upload a (raw) constitution for a given online community, please either fill out the form at https://metagov.typeform.com/addconstitution or directly submit a pull request to add a file to this folder, preferably as a .md file. Please make sure that the section titles are recognizable, and please include the following JSON metadata as a comment at the bottom of the file:
{
"@context": "https://constitutions.metagov.org",
"type": "constitution",
"title": "<title of the document>",
"name": "<name of the DAO>",
"daoURI": "<URI of daoURI, see EIP-4824>",
"dateCreated": "<YYYY-MM-DD>",
"dateModified": "<YYYY-MM-DD>",
"previousConstitutionURI": "<URI>",
"inForce": "<True, False>",
"archived": "<YYYY-MM-DD>"
}Typically, a constitution articulates goals, values, and rights within the context of an organization's decision-making. It will sometimes describe the decision-making process of that organization, as well as any important institutions within that process (e.g. a legislative body, a president, a treasurer).
Not sure if your governance document is a constitution? Constitutional rights and values are specified informally in all sorts of places: blog posts, manifestos, covenants, governance.md files, etc. If you have a question, please open an issue or submit a pull request, and we can help you figure it out. Some constitutional documents are very short (less than 10 sentences), while others are drafted by lawyers and span 20+ pages.
Joshua Tan, Max Langenkamp, Anna Weichselbraun, Ann Brody, and Lucia Korpas
Please contact josh@metagov.org if you have any questions or are looking for help in writing your organization's constitution.