Fractal Governance Architecture

Fractal Governance Architecture (FGA) introduces a constitutional governance model in which actions, namespace allocations, policy updates, protocol amendments, and constitutional revisions are represented as governed state transitions evaluated under a common admissibility grammar. The paper argues that many governance systems fail through scale discontinuity: operational actions are governed one way, institutions another, and constitutional amendment often by informal or exceptional processes. FGA formalizes a transition schema over proposals, jurisdictions, evaluators, evaluation results, binding decisions, receipts, and amendment metadata. It distinguishes protocol semantics from kernel execution, evaluation from decision, and permissions from admissible transitions. The framework treats receipts as tamper-evident constitutional artifacts and defines bounded recursion through explicit, jurisdiction-relative constitutional roots. The central thesis is that governance can become a reusable constitutional service layer rather than application-specific logic: commits, repositories, namespaces, protocols, and institutions may differ in policy content while sharing the same transition form. This gives FGA its fractal property: structural self-similarity across scales without erasing jurisdictional or institutional difference.