Capacity to act · The authority · Element
The test
Whether it has ever actually been used.
The part
What it is
An authority that exists on paper and has never been exercised may not work in practice, and finding out during an opportunity is a poor time.
A small deliberate use is worth doing to establish that the mechanism functions.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the authority
The standing authority
What can be committed outside the cycle.
LearnThe conditions
What has to be true to use it.
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