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Bind the breach with law. The type chart is the Constitution.

Skill this builds: Match a rights violation to the constitutional provision that actually reaches it, calculate when a case is weakened enough to bind, and identify the decided case behind each instrument.
About: About 18 minutes · Standards: C3, NCSS · Plays offline

You are a Clerk of the Republic. Breaches are rights violations given a form you can face. Argue with real legal instruments — each is strong against some breaches and useless against others, and the matchups are the actual doctrine. Weaken a breach, then SERVE THE WRIT to bind it into your Docket. Argue too long past the binding window and it hardens.

Every instrument in this game is a real legal remedy and every breach is a real category of rights violation, each carrying its decided case. The creatures are inventions; the doctrine is not. Two things are deliberate. First: BREACHES ARE ACTS, NEVER INSTITUTIONS. There is no agency in this game to defeat, because the standard is that institutions are not villains — unconstitutional acts are, and the same office does lawful work on Tuesday and unlawful work on Wednesday. Second: this is education and not legal advice. Real cases turn on facts a game cannot give you.

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The point

You just learned a type chart, and the type chart was the Bill of Rights. That is the whole trick of this game and it is not a trick at all — the reason a Fourth Amendment argument bounces off a censorship case is not arbitrary, it is that each provision does one job and does not reach past it. Lawyers call it 'the right hook'. Finding the provision that actually reaches your facts IS the work, and the reason a case is lost is more often that somebody brought the wrong instrument than that they were wrong about the wrong being done. Notice too what you never fought: an agency, a party, a person. Every breach here was an ACT. The same office that did the unlawful thing on Wednesday did lawful work on Tuesday, and a citizen who cannot hold both of those in mind at once is going to be useless at this.