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Posting on behalf of Milli Maietti.

A foundation for constructive mathematics without unique choice is the

Minimalist Foundation (MF) ideated in

http://www.math.unipd.it/~maietti/papers/MaiettiSambin-rev2.pdf

and completed in

http://www.math.unipd.it/~maietti/papers/tt.pdf

This is meant as a base system to formalize constructive point-free topology and perform constructive reverse mathematics, where

  • Dedekind reals and Cauchy reals defined in terms of functional relations do not form a set

(only Cauchy type-theoretic reals do form a set), even in the classical extension of MF with excluded middle as explained in

http://www.math.unipd.it/~maietti/papers/whyp.pdf

A quotient completion of a tripos which does not impose unique choice has been introduced in

http://www.math.unipd.it/~maietti/papers/quLU.pdf

as a generalization of the ex/lex completion.