You remain a subject of rights even if you lose a credential or cannot access an interface.
Art. 35 · foundation of all rights · proposed internal rights
Human dignity
Dignity means that no person may be treated merely as a resource, identifier, balance, data point or piece of infrastructure. In Candeia's constitutional design, it is inviolable and binds public authorities — and private actors to the extent defined by the Constitution.
Proposed Constitution · reference text · not promulgatedIn brief
A right is not an abstract promise: it constrains concrete decisions.
Dignity is the starting point for interpreting every other right. In a digital environment, its most important consequence is preventing a person's legal worth from being reduced to an account status, possession of a key, reputation calculated by an algorithm or the economic utility that person represents.
Person before technical identity
Art. 14 states that the person is the original subject of the legal order. An account, digital wallet, credential, device, avatar, persona, address, profile or automated agent may represent or mediate relationships, but does not replace the person.
This principle acts as a safeguard against “administrative death” caused by a registry failure: an incorrect record must be correctable; lost authentication must have proportionate recovery; an interface ban cannot mean expulsion from legal protection.
A rule for institutional design
Dignity guides procedures, language, accessibility, treatment of persons deprived of liberty, protection of children, bodily autonomy and responses to automated errors. When two interpretations are possible, the Constitution requires the one that best preserves the person, liberty and the effectiveness of rights.
What this means for you
Practical consequences
High-impact procedures must allow challenge and cannot turn a person into a mere output of automated classification.
Degrading or humiliating treatment, or treatment that erases legal personality, does not become legitimate because it is technically efficient.
Limits and institutional honesty
What this safeguard does not authorise
Dignity does not turn every discomfort or disagreement into a constitutional violation.
It does not eliminate individual responsibility or prevent legally valid sanctions; it requires those responses to respect the person and the other safeguards.
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