Imported from vinaosb/libertarian-constitution-and-laws (docs/en/inter-governmental-agreements/AGENTS.md). Install upstream with npx skills add vinaosb/libertarian-constitution-and-laws --skill inter-governmental-agreements. Copyright stays with the author.

docs/en/inter-governmental-agreements/

Production-ready agreement templates for public-public interactions between government entities. Local councils, regional governments, and national institutions use these to coordinate services, share revenue, and resolve jurisdictional boundaries.

What this directory is for

Government entities often need to work together. A city and a neighboring district might share a watershed. Two local councils might pool emergency resources. A regional government might receive fiscal transfers from the national treasury. Each of these interactions requires a formal agreement that prevents cost-shifting, preserves local autonomy, and defines clear exit terms.

These are public-public instruments, not government-to-private contracts. They follow the same contract/agreement body structure as government-contracts but with different risk profiles. The main risks here are cartel-like coordination that reduces citizen choice and one jurisdiction offloading costs onto another.

Structure

docs/en/inter-governmental-agreements/
❜❜❜ _template.md                            Structural skeleton for all agreements here
❜❜❜ inter-local-cooperation.md              Cooperation between local governments
❜❜❜ regional-local-service-delivery.md     Regional coordination of local services
❜❜❜ mutual-aid-agreement.md                Emergency resource sharing
❜❜❜ watershed-management-compact.md         Shared watershed governance
❜❜❜ inter-jurisdictional-tax-sharing.md     Revenue sharing across jurisdictions
❜❜❜ boundary-dispute-resolution.md         Resolving territorial disagreements
❜❜❜ competitive-governance-protocol.md     Preventing cartel-like coordination
❜❜❜ fiscal-transfer-framework.md            National-to-regional money flows

Conventions

Follow the parent docs/en/AGENTS.md conventions. Additional rules for this category:

• Every agreement includes sunset clauses and exit provisions. A jurisdiction must be able to leave without penalty.
• Guardrails address cost-shifting prevention, anti-cartel coordination, and local autonomy preservation.
• Each agreement cites the constitutional or statutory basis for the inter-governmental relationship (for example, fiscal transfers cite Constitution, Article 6(21)).
• Use [TO BE DETERMINED BY ADOPTING COUNTRY] for jurisdiction names, authority names, and geographic references.

What lives elsewhere

• Legal text on subsidiarity and regional governance: en/national/annexes/
• Local government model ordinances: en/local/model-ordinances/
• Parent index: docs/en/README.md
• Template skeleton: _template.md in this directory

Gotchas

• The competitive-governance-protocol template is the most conceptually difficult document here. It must prevent government entities from coordinating in ways that reduce citizen choice, while still allowing legitimate cooperation.
• Fiscal transfers are politically sensitive. The template must trace every formula to its statutory basis rather than inventing allocation rules.
• Dispute resolution between government entities defaults to the courts, not private arbitration, because both parties are public.
• Do not assume a hierarchical relationship between national and regional governments unless the legal text explicitly establishes one.