The long work · a public build in progress
The Consolidation
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D · Draft — not verified This page is a construction site with the scaffolding left up on purpose. Rows marked verified have been read against a named resolution. Rows marked pending have not, and say so. How we verify →
The Navajo Nation has no single current, complete, readable body of law. Why that is is the finding this whole site rests on. This page is the other half of the answer: if the book does not exist, it can be built — in public, from official sources, one provision at a time.
The method, so anyone can check it or copy it
For each provision: start with the text in the published Code, which is current only through 2009. Walk the amendment summary sheet, which lists resolution numbers from 2014 forward. Pull each amending resolution by number from DiBB and read what it actually changed. Record the chain. Then, separately, note what the August 7, 2025 proposed constitution would do to the same subject, citing its article and page.
Three honest limits of the method, stated up front. 2010–2013 has no index — those years must be hunted resolution by resolution, and a chain that skips them is incomplete. Five Titles were never printed — 3, 8, 11, 16, and 26 — so for those there is no base text to start from, only the enacting resolutions and, in Title 26’s case, a standalone Act posted outside the Code. And this project is not a law office. Nothing here is legal advice; every row points at the source so you can read it yourself and disagree.
Phase 1 — governance
Not the whole Code. The provisions a voter needs before November 3: how laws are made, who codifies them, who audits the money, how contracts are let, and how chapters govern. That slice is small enough to finish and large enough to matter.
| Provision | 2009 text | Known changes since | Proposed constitution | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 N.N.C. § 221(A) Codification duty | In the published Code | None found. The duty stands; performance is the question — fix #1 | Art. XV would create a new legislative house; where the duty lands is unstated — asked | Pending — post-2009 amendments unchecked |
| 2 N.N.C. §§ 102, 164 Legislative process | In the published Code | CJA-01-18 amends agreements not requiring Council approval, § 164(B) — listed on the amendment sheet, resolution not yet read | Arts. X, XV — legislative structure and process | Pending — resolution not yet pulled |
| 2 N.N.C. §§ 1601–1606 “Division of Health” | In the published Code — shows the pre-2014 structure | Rewritten by CO-50-14 (2014), creating the Department of Health. Read the resolution here. | — | Verified |
| 2 N.N.C. §§ 223–225 Contracts & public access | In the published Code; § 225’s public-access language read verbatim (enacted CD-68-89) | Not found on the amendment sheet; 2010–2013 unchecked | Art. VIII — investor rights and the business environment | Pending — 2010–2013 gap |
| 12 N.N.C. Auditor General | In the published Code | Not yet traced | Art. XIV — government stability and oversight | Pending |
| 26 N.N.C. Local Governance Act | Never printed in the Code. The Act’s text is posted separately by the Division of Community Development; enacted CAP-34-98 | CJY-43-04 amends the Act (majority chapter approval required); the 2007 Chapter Five Management System Manuals Act amends it further. Council took a work session on four amendment models in June 2024 — reform is live. | Art. XVIII — chapters reconstituted as local governance entities; § 1807 ordinance powers | Pending — resolutions not yet read in full |
| 11 N.N.C. Elections | Never printed in the Code, though it appears in the table of contents | No base text to compare against. The Election Administration governs practice. | Art. XI — elections and representative governance; §§ 605.A and 1107 give two different initiative thresholds | Pending — no base text exists |
FINDING Look down the status column. One row of seven is verified. That is not a confession of laziness — it is the measurement. Assembling seven provisions of governance law is beyond what one careful reader can verify quickly, using only public sources. Now imagine a grazing permit holder, a chapter secretary, or a small-business owner trying it for one section, once. That is the finding, and it is why fix #1 is a budget line, not a favor.
Why publish an unfinished chart
Because the alternative is publishing nothing until it is perfect, and the Nation has waited seventeen years for perfect. Every row here is either checked or labeled unchecked. Nobody is misled. And an unfinished public chart does something a finished private one cannot: it shows exactly where the work is, so someone with better access — a law student, an office, a delegate, the Office of Legislative Counsel itself — can finish a row and tell us.
TAKE ACTION
Finish a row
Pick any “pending” row. Pull the resolution on DiBB, read what it changed, and send us the citation — anonymously, on Participate. We will publish the row with its chain and, if you want, nothing about you at all. The guided search walks the steps; the Law Ledger holds the finished rows.