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.
Presidential Constitutional Declaration issued 22 November 2012 placing Morsi's decisions beyond judicial review until the adoption of a new constitution, protecting the Shura Council and Constituent Assembly from dissolution by the courts, dismissing the sitting Prosecutor General and appointing a replacement, and ordering retrials of Mubarak-era figures. Triggered the judges' strike, mass Tahrir Square protests, and formation of the National Salvation Front opposition bloc. The most contested articles were rescinded 8 December 2012, but the rushed constitutional referendum (15 and 22 December 2012; 63.8% yes on ~33% turnout) proceeded.
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.