RESARTI

I · RES PVBLICA

The commons belongs to those who maintain it.
Trust is auditable, or it is not trust.
Data resides where its people reside.
What we run, we can read.
Security is a public work.
Citizenship is conduct, not origin.

CIVIS·FIT·NON·NASCITVR

a citizen is made, not born

II · SENATVS POPVLVSQVE

Stewardship is earned, and only advises.
The fork is the people’s veto.
Shared law, sovereign locality.
One decides, few deliberate, all consent.
Norms erode; encode them.

SENATVS·POPVLVSQVE

the senate and the people, one body

III · RESARTI

We fix ourselves to fix what is ours.
The mended mend: the household, the land, the tools.
A tool far away is still our tool.
Maintenance is never finished; it is the condition.
Stop mending, and the title lapses.

SE·SVAQVE·OMNIA·RESARCIVNT

they mend themselves and all that is theirs

GLOSSA

RESARTI: From resarcire: to mend again, to make good. The perfect passive participle, masculine plural. The mended, the restored — persons, not things; Latin reads a masculine plural noun as people. And passive: not those who mend, those who were mended. The sentence that follows is active. Say re·SAR·ti; north of the Alps, re·ZAR·ti. Both write it the same. The whole line: re·SAR·ti · se · su·A·que · OM·ni·a · re·SAR·ki·unt.
RESARTVM: The neuter. The mended thing: the commons itself, the object of the sentence.
SE SVAQVE OMNIA: Se, themselves. Sua, their own things — household, land, tools, undifferentiated. Omnia, all. Caesar’s phrase for a people placing themselves and everything they own into another’s keeping: in fidem, into trust. It is accusative — an object, waiting for its verb.
THE TWO FORMS: RESARTI SE SVAQVE OMNIA — subject, object, verb understood: the mended [mend] themselves and all that is theirs. Inscription grammar; the name supplies the verb. A motto.
RESARTI SVAQVE OMNIA — drop se and the whole phrase turns nominative: the mended and all that is theirs, one body bound by -que. Not a sentence, a name. A title.
-QVE: The other “and.” Et lists; -que binds two things into one. It leans on the end of the second word — se suaque, senatus populusque — and pulls the stress onto the syllable before it: suáque, populúsque. Senate-and-people is one body because of this syllable.
RESARCIVNT: Present tense. They mend — not have mended. Continuously, or not at all. This is the maintenance clause.
SARTA TECTA: “Kept in repair,” literally roof-mended — a building whose roof keeps out the rain. The Republic’s own term for the upkeep of public works; the censors let contracts sarta tecta tuenda, and the contractor’s duty included guarding what he mended. The same root as resarti.