The mechanism I could not find
Every lock, threshold, dual key and conflict bar in the Covenant marks a place where force stands in for a mechanism that should have made defection lose on its own. Those are the places it comes apart first.
Name one. The clause, by number, the defection it still pays for, and what would make that defection lose instead. A mechanism is worth more here than agreement.
Nothing is stored beyond the mail it becomes. No account, no tracking, no third party in the path.
The Covenant of Earth, the constitution itself, and the manifesto that argues for it.