Section 1. Intergenerational Obligation
Care for human dignity across the lifespan constitutes an intergenerational obligation. Society shall maintain systems that support persons from birth through old age, recognizing continuity of care as essential to freedom and participation.
Section 2. Guaranteed Social Protection
Every person has the right to social protection against disability, illness, unemployment, caregiving burden, and old age. Such protections shall be sufficient to sustain a dignified life and participation in society.
Section 3. Permanence of Core Social Systems
Core social systems securing income support, healthcare, disability support, and elder care are fundamental rights. These systems shall be permanent and shall not be privatized, diminished, replaced with inferior substitutes, or rendered inaccessible through administrative design.
Section 4. Non-Substitution and Adequacy
Social protections shall not be replaced by discretionary charity, temporary relief, or market-based alternatives that fail to provide stability, universality, and adequacy. Benefits shall be designed to meet real living needs, not minimal survival thresholds.
Section 5. Protection Against Erosion
No social protection guaranteed by this Article shall be weakened through underfunding, neglect, procedural delay, reclassification, means-testing designed to exclude, or administrative complexity intended to deter access.
Section 6. Equal Access and Dignity
Access to social protection shall be universal and nondiscriminatory. Receipt of benefits shall not require humiliation, suspicion, punitive surveillance, or forfeiture of other constitutional rights.
Section 7. Caregiving and Dependency
Caregiving labor, including the care of children, elders, and persons with disabilities, is socially necessary labor and shall be recognized, supported, and protected. Dependency shall not be treated as moral failure or grounds for exclusion.
Section 8. Interpretation
This Article shall be interpreted to expand continuity of care and social security. Ambiguity shall be resolved in favor of permanence, adequacy, and human dignity.
Section 9. Enforcement
Violations of this Article shall be recognized as violations of fundamental rights and shall be subject to immediate judicial remedy, without requirement of exhaustion, delay, or deference.
Section 10. Non-Derogation
The rights secured by this Article shall not be suspended, limited, or reinterpreted under any circumstance except through amendment by the people.
Care provided under this Article shall preserve autonomy, require informed consent, and shall not be used as a mechanism of punishment, surveillance, or social exclusion.