The Actor Before Sovereigns: Identity, Impersonation, and the Conditions of Authority

This work is a non-normative, non-operational doctrinal examination of identity as a constitutional precondition for authority, accountability, and sovereignty in institutional and digitally mediated systems. The book argues that authority collapses not only when decisions are wrong, but when no identifiable actor can be bound to those decisions over time. It examines how modern digital execution—through delegation, impersonation, chaining, automation, decentralization, and emergence—erodes identity in its constitutional sense, even when technical recognition, authentication, or auditability remain intact. Rather than treating identity as a technical or administrative problem, this doctrine treats identity as…