Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Under Decree 158/1983 the Cámara Federal tried the nine junta members in public proceedings 22 April - 9 December 1985 using CONADEP evidence. Videla and Massera received life sentences; Viola, Lambruschini, Agosti received shorter terms; Galtieri, Anaya, Lami Dozo, Graffigna were acquitted. First trial of a military junta by a civilian court in Latin America. Sentences reduced by 1989-90 Menem pardons; re-tried after 2003 nullity declarations.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.