Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
ACT-sponsored bill seeking to legislate a defined statutory set of Treaty of Waitangi principles to replace the common-law framework developed by the courts and Waitangi Tribunal. Introduced November 2024, advanced to first reading with coalition support, drew a record ~300,000 submissions, and was defeated at second reading in April 2025 when National and NZ First voted against.
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.