Constitutional Physiology: Measuring Legitimacy as Care in a Living Civic Body

This artifact is an early Constitutional Physiology white paper preserved as an origin-layer document in the development of the broader Structural Flow civic project. It presents the Republic as a living civic body whose health depends on the interaction of circulation, regulation, autonomy, cognition, renewal, and memory. Within that physiology, legitimacy appears as a pulse-like expression of constitutional health and care. The paper develops this framework through constitutional organs and vital signs: transparency and integrity as circulation, regulation and humane proportionality as thermoregulation, bodily autonomy and recognition as membrane integrity, judicial perception and amicus practice as…