Institutional Continuity Integrity Framework (ICIF): A Constitutional Framework for Evaluating Sovereign Continuity of Memory and Reasoning

The Institutional Continuity Integrity Framework (ICIF) is a non-normative, non-operational constitutional evaluative framework governing the integrity of institutional continuity where authority depends on the survival of memory and reasoning across time, substitution, and authorship change. ICIF does not define authority, establish doctrine, or prescribe governance, controls, safeguards, practices, or implementation guidance. It does not provide standards, baselines, checklists, maturity models, certification schemes, assurance mechanisms, or evaluative scores. The framework defines evaluative axes, integrity conditions, and failure states under which claims of continuity may be assessed as intact,…