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.
Decreto 1923 de 1978 under state of siege expanded military jurisdiction over civilians, criminalised street protest (arts 2-4), extended arrest powers without warrant, and restricted press coverage of armed conflict. Governed 1978-1982; produced documented torture cases (Amnesty International 1980), M-19 Dominican embassy takeover 1980, and constitutional-court challenges.
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.