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AFTER CERTAINTY

book

Founding declaration

Charter 77. Founding declaration. 1977. Václav Havel Library.

Why this matters here

Charter 77's 1977 declaration demanded that the Czechoslovak state honor human-rights commitments it had formally accepted, without offering a full governing program. When Others Become Leaders treats that narrow demand as leadership architecture: speaking as if official language were binding can destabilize a system that lived by the gap between words and experience.