# American Trust Code **Domain:** Values / Institutional Trust **System:** [[wiki/American Character|American Character]] ## Definition The American Trust Code names ten practices through which free people and consequential institutions become safe to rely upon: integrity, competence, discretion, responsibility, truth, service, respect, justice, courage, and stewardship. Trust is treated as accumulated evidence rather than sentiment. Each promise kept, fact checked, confidence handled properly, consequence owned, and system maintained updates the social ledger. The code governs both private character and participation in national systems. ## Place in the American System American Trust Code is developed from [[american/American Character - The American Trust Code|American Character - The American Trust Code]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/American Character|American Character]] · [[wiki/Trust Is an Aesthetic|Trust Is an Aesthetic]] · [[wiki/Citizen-Privateer Conduct|Citizen-Privateer Conduct]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Character - The American Trust Code|American Character - The American Trust Code]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].