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Guardianship Debates

The Guardianship Debates series republishes works on Guardianship, slavery, regulated unfreedom, abolitionist pressure, legal compromise, registry fraud, and the economic machinery that sustained both settlement and resistance.

This series is for readers willing to encounter founding compromise, contemporary enforcement, and abolitionist reply in the same archival track—not for readers seeking a single moral verdict from the Review.

What this series does not cover

Guardianship Debates does not provide clinical xenology, ansible engineering, or full Earth Union welfare history. Species-level kinship material appears in Species Profiles. Container and ship-registry mechanics appear under Standards and Infrastructure.

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  1. The Galactic Confederation at Founding
  2. The Compromise That Named the Chain
  3. The Chain Was Not Softened

Release order

Release Selection Field
2494.205 The Galactic Confederation at Founding History and Policy
2494.216 The Compromise That Named the Chain Ethics and History
2494.243 The Chain Was Not Softened Law and Ethics
2495.026 The Human Trap in the Guardianship Settlement Economics and Policy
2495.128 Earth Stole My Property Property and Status Law
2495.172 The Door Was Not Hidden Comparative Public Law
2496.073 When Moral Alignment Failed at Interstellar Scale History and Policy
2496.127 What the Ledger Refuses to See Political Economy
2496.172 Status Laundering at the Registry Interface Law and Enforcement
2496.299 Earth Did Not Steal Your Property Abolitionist Legal History