Research architecture

Book research and evidence register

This page defines the evidence categories that should be populated before drafting the finished book. It deliberately separates historical evidence, legal authority, financial theory, regulatory material and the author's proposed Reparation Bond architecture.

A. Debt and monetary history

National debt, sovereign bonds, public credit, bank balance sheets, debt repayment episodes and financial crises.

B. Reparations history

Claims, settlements, commissions, negotiated programmes, payments and examples where reparatory obligations were financed or implemented over time.

C. Bond mechanics

Principal, coupon/interest, maturity, redemption, security, ranking, default, transfer, registers and paying-agent structures.

D. Accounting

Recognition of liabilities, cash, commitments, contingent items, revenue and the distinction between nominal latent value and funded debt.

E. UK law and regulation

Company authority, financial promotions, public offers, securities/debt-instrument character, consumer/investor restrictions, AML/KYC, sanctions, tax and data protection.

F. Governance

Board authority, conflicts, segregation of duties, register control, audit, custody, transparency and dispute handling.

G. The Black Pledge

Companion concepts that should be cited accurately without collapsing a pledge, promissory note, currency and bond into the same instrument.

H. Reparation Bond proposal

Clearly label original/proposed architecture as proposal rather than historical fact or existing law.

Drafting rule: every substantive chapter should distinguish (1) documented fact, (2) external legal/financial authority, (3) analysis/inference, and (4) the author's proposed architecture.