{
  "id": "sovereign-confluence",
  "type": "vocabulary_term",
  "term": "Sovereign Confluence",
  "classification": "Sealed (descriptive)",
  "definition": "Descriptive companion phrase for synovereignty emphasizing distinct streams flowing together without collapse, hierarchy, or assimilation.",
  "presence_indicators": [
    "Streams remain identifiable.",
    "Current emerges that no stream would produce alone.",
    "Stopping any stream collapses the confluence."
  ],
  "failure_signatures": [
    "Streams merge into one (merger, not confluence).",
    "One stream dominates and the others lose flow.",
    "Current persists after streams cease (institution, not confluence)."
  ],
  "drift_indicators": [
    "Used as the primary technical term replacing synovereignty.",
    "Used as metaphor without structural reference."
  ],
  "detection": "Ask whether removing one stream collapses the current. If yes, it is confluence. If no, it is something else.",
  "depends_on": [
    "synovereignty"
  ],
  "canonical_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/glossary.html#sovereign-confluence",
  "json_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/api/v1/vocabulary/sovereign-confluence.json",
  "operational_definition_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/bundle/operational-definitions.html#sovereign-confluence"
}