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.
13th Amendment to Constitution of Pakistan passed 1 April 1997 repealing Article 58(2)(b) which since Zia-ul-Haq's 8th Amendment (1985) had empowered the President to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve National Assembly at discretion. Strengthened premier's hand vis-à-vis presidency. 14th Amendment passed 3 July 1997 introduced anti-defection provisions binding MNAs to party whip on votes, with disqualification for defection. Both passed with PML-N's 2/3 majority. Reversed under General Musharraf's Legal Framework Order 2002 (17th Amendment, restoring 58(2)(b)). 13th Amendment later re-enacted under 18th Amendment (2010) permanently removing presidential dismissal power.
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.