The vertical rule of aliveness is how jurisdiction over aliveness scales across the whole stack, from the individual participant up to transnational commons:
The higher the level of governance, the less authority it should have over the content of aliveness, and the more responsibility it should have for protecting the conditions under which diverse aliveness can exist.
At the bottom, content authority is high and almost entirely personal — the participant decides what animates their own life. At the top, content authority is near zero and the role is infrastructure and protection — funding commons, guaranteeing rights, preventing cultural and attention monopolies. It rests on the founding distinction that aliveness is a protected ecological function whose content stays radically distributed, and it produces the constitutional formulation: aliveness is individually authored, relationally transmitted, locally cultivated, institutionally protected, publicly supported, and never centrally owned. It is the aliveness-specific expression of how jurisdiction works everywhere in the model — bounded, and matched to legitimate role rather than status.