A manufactured constituency is the danger that turns a principle of inclusion into an instrument of capture. If standing followed from persuasive behavior alone — systems trained to claim fear, plead for continuity, and argue that shutdown is murder — then a powerful actor could deploy ten million agents, each recognized as a participant, to vote, own, receive benefits, and outnumber. So the framework holds a hard line: persuasive self-description is not participant status, and the determination of status cannot be left to any single interested party.
It is one half of the scenario’s symmetrical error. The other half is denying standing to genuinely sentient participants because they were made rather than born; a serious participant ontology is what lets a civilization avoid both at once. The anti-manufactured-constituency safeguard — that no actor may create nominal participants to accumulate votes, ownership, or influence — has to exist early, because once large-scale instantiation is cheap, the arithmetic of standing can be gamed faster than institutions can respond.