The Nation has a collective duty to protect the future line

Collective Duty to Protect the Future Line

Category: Tsm’syen Law Page status: Working

Purpose

This page records the collective responsibility of the Nation to protect the future line. It affirms that continuity of law, names, and responsibility is a shared duty held across generations.

This page is declarative and does not assign individual authority or offices.

Principle

The Nation has a collective duty to protect the future line.

Meaning

• The future line does not belong to any single person or role.
• Protection of continuity requires shared care and participation.
• Law survives only when the collective accepts responsibility for transmission.

Collective Responsibility

• Houses, clans, elders, leaders, adults, and youth all hold responsibility.
• Duty is exercised through teaching, recognition, and correction.
• Collective responsibility prevents concentration or loss of authority.

Protection

• Protection includes deliberate teaching of law and names.
• Protection requires preparing youth without premature burden.
• Protection guards against loss, misuse, or distortion of law.

Consequences of Failure

• Neglect weakens continuity and governance.
• Breaks in transmission increase conflict and uncertainty.
• Loss of collective duty places undue burden on individuals.

Limits

• Collective duty does not override house or clan authority.
• Protection does not create unilateral power.
• Responsibility must be exercised through lawful conduct.

Cross References

• The Future Line
• Continuity and Transmission
• Breaks in Teaching Weaken Governance
• Youth and the Future Line
• Transmission of Law
• Elders as Legal Memory
• Ayaawx
• Adaawx

To Be Developed

• Examples of collective protection in practice
• House and clan responsibilities
• Contemporary risks to continuity
• Source citations