Institutional Actor Integrity Framework (IAIF): A Non-Normative Constitutional Specification of Actorhood

This work is a non-normative, non-operational constitutional specification defining the structural conditions under which actorhood is sufficient for institutional authority to bind. The Institutional Actor Integrity Framework (IAIF) does not address how identity is implemented, governed, authenticated, or managed. Instead, it specifies the invariants that must hold for an actor to exist in the constitutional sense—that is, for authority, obligation, responsibility, and consequence to meaningfully attach to a subject over time. The framework distinguishes actorhood from identity, recognition, representation, or technical attribution. It shows how modern institutional systems may continue to operate, decide,…