Federal provisions
Proposed duties, review, enforcement, and implementation provisions for the federal level.
Read the federal proposal (PDF) →Making corrections take effect
The Duty to Correct
Proposed Legislation for Accountable Public Power
By Christine Hillier
What happens when a record is wrong—or someone acts without lawful authority?
Kindle available now. Paperback and hardcover release September 29, 2026.
The Duty to Correct · Christine Hillier
About the book
Check authority. Protect people. Correct errors.
A record can affect your freedom, your family, or your access to care. The Duty to Correct connects public protections to requirements that can be implemented, inspected, and tested. You should not have to wait for the decision maker to admit an error before you can challenge it.
What to look for.
- Check the delegation and the conditions required for a particular action.
- Separate observations, allegations, inferences, and findings.
- Provide independent review and verify the effects of correction.
Separately printable
Proposed legislation.
Adaptable state provisions
A model state proposal for consideration and adaptation within the relevant legal system.
Read the model state proposal (PDF) →Author proposals from the expanded teaching edition. They are not enacted laws or government-issued standards.
Verification · Tests · Evidence
Run the examples. Challenge the assumptions.
The companion includes a finite authorization model, correction delivery with an offline recipient, stale-record replay, and other synthetic examples.
Some activities are worked references or human exercises supplied for the reader to perform. Automated checks evaluate the stated models; they do not establish legal validity, field effectiveness, or insurability.
Download the synthetic lab bundle (ZIP) →Read the recorded results (TXT) →Reproduce the run
Extract the bundle. With Python 3.10 or newer, run:
python3 run_labs.py --output resultsRead each model's assumptions and limits alongside its output. Use the results to identify what still needs independent review.
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