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.
On 5 April 1992 President Alberto Fujimori, with Armed Forces joint-command support, issued the Decreto Ley 25.418 "Manifiesto a la Nación" dissolving Congress, suspending the 1979 Constitution, and intervening in the judiciary. Tanks surrounded Congress and the Palace of Justice. Supreme Court justices, fiscales, and contralor replaced. Political opponents (former President Alan García among others) fled or were detained. Termed "Gobierno de Emergencia y Reconstrucción Nacional."
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.