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.
Proclamation 1017 issued 24 February 2006 by President Arroyo declaring state of national emergency citing coup plot (Magdalo-Palparan alleged destabilisation), lifted one week later 3 March 2006. Executive Order 464 restricted cabinet members' Senate testimony without presidential permission (separate measure, September 2005). Supreme Court ruling Randolf David v. Arroyo 3 May 2006 partially struck PP 1017 — upheld calling-out power to the AFP but struck warrantless search-and-arrest provisions and "takeover" clause of privately-owned businesses as unconstitutional. Daily Tribune raid and Gloria Ilagan arrest during the week-long emergency became flashpoints.
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.