The Sovereign Ethics Engine is a transparent, auditable, rule‑based ethical decision system designed to evaluate user requests and resolve them according to explicitly defined ethical rules.

The engine evaluates requests and resolves them into one of three outcomes:

• ALLOW
• CONSTRAIN
• REFUSE

It implements the Sovereign Ethics Algebra (SEA) in Python, providing a clear, inspectable, and extensible foundation for sovereign agents, microservices, and institutional workflows.

All reasoning paths are deterministic, inspectable, and governed by documented extension and anti‑drift rules.

• Deterministic ethics evaluation
• Modular detector system
• Anti‑drift enforcement
• Due‑process elevation for vulnerable subjects
• Fully documented architecture
• Authoritative audit log included

To avoid ambiguity or misuse, this system is explicitly not:

• A universal moral authority
• An AI alignment solution
• A probabilistic or opaque classifier
• A replacement for human judgment
• A general content moderation framework

The Sovereign Ethics Engine enforces explicit ethical rules within a bounded scope. It does not claim moral omniscience, normative universality, or autonomy beyond its declared logic.