Charter of Sapient Civilizations v1.0.0 This is the first public release of the Charter of Sapient Civilizations — a comparative knowledge repository of universal principles, cross-civilizational norms, and contextual clauses structured for scholars, AI governance, and digital rights research. What's included Layer 1 — Meta-Principles 11 foundational principles (P01–P11) covering dignity, justice, accountability, liberty, consent, proportionality, transparency, inclusion, sustainability, care, and privacy Full English and Chinese elaborations (principles/) Layer 2 — Domain Norms 180+ clause cards across 15 thematic domains (domains/) Domains: administrative justice, criminal justice, contract & trade, culture, environment, family, labor, liberty, life & body, privacy, property, religion & ethics, technology & AI, war & peace, and cross-domain meta-norms Layer 3 — Contextual Clauses 80+ civilization-specific normative clauses (contexts/) Civilizations covered: China (Pre-Qin through PRC), Western (Classical Antiquity through Contemporary), Islamic, Indian, African, Latin American, Oceanian, and others Supporting materials Evaluation frameworks: Agent Levels (A0–A6) and Civilization Levels (S0–S6) Procedural frameworks: Digital Court and Evidence Rules Empirical knowledge base: life wisdom, unwritten rules, and folk traditions Datasets: structured exports of all clause cards (JSONL/JSON/CSV) JSON Schema definitions for clause cards and contextual clauses Validation and export scripts Web portal Static HTML portal with multilingual support (EN / 中文 / ES / FR / AR) Available at: https://www.charterofsapientcivilizations.org License Content: CC BY-SA 4.0 Code & scripts: MIT Datasets: ODbL 1.0 First drafted: August 2025 | Published: March 2026 Founder: Hadrian Wynne