# The Book of Seven Bonds

The Book of Seven Bonds presents seven enduring ethical principles intended to help people and communities live together with greater security, fairness, trust, respect, care, stewardship and reason.

Canonical content:
- The Book of Seven Bonds.md — authoritative Markdown manuscript
- The Book of Seven Bonds.html — self-contained web edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds.epub — EPUB edition
- The Book of Seven Bonds - Digital.pdf — digital PDF
- The Book of Seven Bonds - Print.pdf — print-ready PDF

Companion research (revision 1.1.0):
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper.pdf — conditional sufficiency and seven-way minimality for ethically acceptable coexistence, by Ren Solan
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper.html — self-contained version of the same paper
- Seven-Bonds-Technical-Paper-verification.zip — final source, arithmetic checks, citations and integrity list
The paper does not establish universal feasibility or a uniquely weakest constitution. All three files are covered by the manifest when the publication is signed.

Important interpretation note:
The Seven Bonds themselves are presented as the enduring foundation. Rituals, examples, procedures, customs and interpretations in the book are guidance for living them and may be adapted when culture, evidence, experience or circumstance gives good reason, provided the adaptation remains faithful to the Bonds.

Reusable visual identity:
- Seven Bonds Logo.png
- Seven Bonds Symbol.png
- Seven Bonds Symbol.svg

Authenticity:
- When present, manifest.json is the signed inventory of package contents; unsigned local previews omit it.
- manifest.json.sig is its detached signature.
- manifest.json.public.json contains the public verification material.
- verify.py verifies the signature and all manifest file hashes offline.

Machine-readable metadata:
- metadata.json

Rights:
Consult the "Publication, Authenticity and Rights" section in the canonical manuscript or any complete rendered edition. The included logo and symbol are governed by those terms.