Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
M-19 commando of ~35 militants seized the Colombian Supreme Court building in Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá, on 6 November 1985, taking ~350 hostages. Army retook the building over 27 hours; fire destroyed case files; 98 confirmed dead including 11 of 25 Supreme Court magistrates, 11 disappeared civilians (later documented as extrajudicially executed by armed forces). Destroyed Betancur's peace strategy and ruptured FARC-UP fragile truce.
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.