Episode notes
In this Constitutional Architecture Edition of The Whitepaper, Nicolin Decker presents The Republic’s Conscience — Edition 5: The Doctrine of Rediscovering Decentralization: a doctrinal brief demonstrating that decentralization is not a 21st-century invention — it is the original design of the United States Constitution.
This episode is crafted for Members of Congress, federal regulators, Article III judiciary, digital-governance architects, Treasury and central-bank leadership, and national-security officials seeking clarity in a domain long defined by confusion:
Everyone is talking about decentralization — but no one agrees on what it means.
🔹 Core Thesis
RDC argues:
The U.S. already operates the world’s first decentralized governance model — not through technology, but through constituti ...
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Harvard Kennedy School — Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsHarvard Law School — Constitutional Law and Administrative Governance FacultyMIT Media Lab — Digital Currency InitiativeMIT School of Engineering — Systems Architecture Research ProgramYale Law School — Information Society ProjectStanford Law School — CodeX Center for Legal InformaticsU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial TechnologyCommodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — LabCFTC DivisionBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System — Digital Finance Working GroupU.S. Department of the Treasury — Office of Financial Research (OFR)Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — Digital Compliance Standards DivisionNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — Applied Cryptography & Public-Infrastructure Standards UnitThe Federalist Society Faculty Division — Administrative Law & Regulation Practice GroupAmerican Constitution Society — Constitutional Interpretation and Governance Theory CommitteeU.S. Court of Appeals Clerks and Constitutional Scholars ConsortiumJudicial Conference of the United States — Emerging Systems and Digital Evidence Working GroupBank for International Settlements (BIS) — Committee on Payments and Market InfrastructureInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) — Digital Financial Governance Working GroupOECD — Blockchain Policy CenterWorld Economic Forum — Digital Trust and Governance Council