A Constitutional Amendment Proposal proposes exact changes to the text of the Cardano Constitution. Each proposal sets out a summary, the motivation, an analysis of the change, and its expected impact. It then goes through a public deliberation period on the Constitutional Amendment Portal, which Intersect opened for alpha testing in August 2026. Authors keep ownership of their proposals; editors facilitate the process but do not control it.
A proposal accepted through this process does not change the constitution by itself. The change takes effect only when a constitution-update governance action is ratified by DReps and approved by the Constitutional Committee. Using the portal is optional, and anyone can submit that governance action directly. To describe a problem without proposing new wording, authors use a Constitutional Issue Statement instead.
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- Constitutional Issue StatementA structured off-chain document that describes an ambiguity, gap, or risk in the Cardano Constitution without proposing a specific fix.View term
- ConstitutionThe document that defines Cardano's governance principles, rules and guardrails. Ratified on-chain in February 2025 and amended through constitution-update governance actions since.View term
- Governance ActionA formal proposal submitted on-chain for the Cardano community to vote on.View term
- Constitutional CommitteeThe elected body of seven members that checks governance actions against the Cardano Constitution, serving as a check alongside DReps and stake pool operators.View term
- DRepA representative that ada holders delegate their on-chain voting power to, so the DRep votes on governance actions on their behalf; like choosing someone to represent your interests in parliament.View term