PASO - High Treason Doctrine

1. Purpose
The doctrine gives PASO reviewers, civic groups, journalists, lawyers, parliamentary actors and public
institutions a common method for deciding when ordinary political criticism becomes mandate
review. It is designed for cases involving impeachment, high treason, serious constitutional breach,
systemic negligence, strategic capture, public-resource diversion, institutional obstruction or failures
that expose communities to foreseeable harm.
The doctrine is not a verdict. It is a review architecture. It turns scattered facts into a disciplined
sequence: public signal, source classification, obligation mapping, impact assessment, correction
opportunity, escalation threshold and action route.
2. Core proposition
Public authority is not private property. It is a revocable mandate held in trust for the people. Once an
office is used or neglected in ways that repeatedly injure population safety, constitutional order,
territorial integrity, strategic resources or the ability of institutions to correct themselves, the
mandate enters review.
PASO therefore examines mandate behavior through four questions: What duty existed? What
conduct or omission occurred? What publi