Reassemble the parts of a (pause) agreement — a recall drill for the anatomy you just dissected.
Every agreement that restrains anyone has the same seven organs. Statements have some of them. Treaties have all of them, though not all healthy. In the next fifteen minutes you will read thirteen short texts, real and fictional, and place each one on the organ it implements. Three of them implement nothing at all.
13 specimens · about 15 minutes · drag each text to the organ it implements.
- 1. The rule. What exactly is prohibited, for whom, above what line, for how long. Rules live in their definitions.
- 2. The claims. Everything declared is compliant, and nothing undeclared exists. Every mechanism serves one branch.
- 3. The evidence. How anyone would know. Judge it by access and by speed against the breakout clock.
- 4. The confidentiality bargain. What stays secret, and the machinery that makes intrusion acceptable. No one signs without it.
- 5. The adversary. Reconstructed from clauses that only make sense as answers to a specific evasion.
- 6. The institution & consequences. Findings, consequences, withdrawal. 'Shall' versus 'may' is the whole organ in two verbs.
- 7. The gap. Compute is not capability, parties are not the world. Good agreements chase their own proxy.
- No organ. Advocacy: sounds load-bearing, binds no one. The tell is 'should' with no bound actor and no procedure.
Sources are hidden until you place each card. Read the text, not the letterhead. Where a tag is arguable, a defensible second-best answer is accepted and discussed, because expert readers disagree about these too. Drag with mouse or touch, or click a card and then click a bin.