Terms of Use

Last updated: May 22, 2026. These terms are practical site rules, not legal advice.

Terms of Use

By using citizenstewardship.org, reading or downloading proposal documents, joining public discussions, submitting ideas, or contacting the project, you agree to use the site in a constructive and lawful way.

Citizen Stewardship is small, citizen-created, and public-facing. These terms are meant to explain how the project works and what kind of participation belongs here.

Purpose of this project

Citizen Stewardship is a citizen-created public discussion project focused on democratic renewal and civic reform in the United States.

The site exists to let people read, download, share, question, criticize, and improve the proposals. The goal is public review and civic education, not private casework, campaign work, payment processing, or user-account services.

Public discussion drafts, not legal advice

The proposal documents are public discussion drafts. They are not legal advice, do not create an attorney-client relationship, and should not be treated as final legislation, final constitutional language, or professional legal guidance.

The proposals may need legal review, technical revision, public debate, constitutional analysis, fiscal analysis, and practical testing before anyone treats them as ready for real-world use.

Community discussion and submissions

Public discussion and public proposal submissions happen through GitHub Discussions because it provides a transparent, organized public record. You do not need to be a coder to participate. Users who post on GitHub are also subject to GitHub's own terms, rules, and privacy policy.

Anything posted publicly in GitHub Discussions should be treated as public. Do not post or submit private personal information, doxxing material, confidential documents, passwords, financial information, medical information, private addresses, private phone numbers, or anything you do not want public.

Submission permission

By submitting an idea, comment, correction, proposed edit, or reform proposal through GitHub Discussions, the contact form, or email, you give Citizen Stewardship permission to review, quote, summarize, discuss, adapt, publish, or incorporate that submission into public project materials, with or without attribution depending on the context, unless you clearly request otherwise. You remain responsible for what you submit, and you should only submit material you have the right to share.

If a submission is incorporated into project materials, it may be edited for clarity, length, formatting, tone, or consistency. Citizen Stewardship is not required to publish, approve, respond to, or adopt every submission.

If you want a correction, removal, or attribution change, email [email protected].

Community submissions

Submissions may be reviewed for relevance, seriousness, safety, and basic alignment with the project's community rules. Review or listing does not mean final adoption or full endorsement.

Listed material can still be questioned, revised, declined, moved, summarized, or removed as the project develops.

Community conduct

Disagreement is welcome when it is constructive, specific, and aimed at improving the work.

Participation should not include:

• Threats, calls for violence, or encouragement of harm.
• Harassment, doxxing, spam, personal attacks, or conspiracy spam.
• Racism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBTQ attacks, sexism, or disability-based abuse.
• Bad-faith partisan trolling or corporate astroturfing.
• Proposals that remove equal rights from one group to benefit another.

Downloadable proposal documents

The downloadable PDFs are provided for public review, sharing, criticism, and civic discussion. The documents may be updated over time.

When referencing the proposals, use the current version available on citizenstewardship.org. Citizen Stewardship makes no guarantee that every idea is legally valid, politically feasible, complete, or error-free.

Third-party services

Citizen Stewardship uses GitHub Discussions for public discussion and submissions, Formspree for contact form processing, and Cloudflare Pages for hosting and delivery. The site also links to social platforms when users follow official channels or share pages.

The contact form is processed by Formspree. Formspree has its own terms and privacy policy. Cloudflare hosts and delivers the site, and Cloudflare has its own terms and privacy policy.

Once you leave citizenstewardship.org or interact with GitHub, Formspree, Cloudflare, or social platforms, those services' own terms and privacy policies apply.

No guarantees

The site and documents are provided for public discussion and civic education. They may contain errors, outdated material, incomplete ideas, or proposals that require legal review.

Citizen Stewardship does not guarantee uninterrupted access, complete accuracy, legal validity, political feasibility, or that every suggestion will be reviewed or used.

Changes to the project

Citizen Stewardship may change, remove, revise, or reorganize pages, PDFs, comments, links, categories, or processes. The project may also revise these Terms of Use when the site, services, or public workflow changes.

Contact

For questions about these terms, corrections, removals, or attribution changes, email [email protected]. Direct and private contact can also happen through the contact form or the same public contact email.