CONSTITUTIONAL PRIMITIVES OF REPLAY-AUTHORITATIVE LEGITIMACY Primitive Architecture and Legitimacy-State Analysis in Constitutional Replay-Authority

Abstract This paper examines whether Constitutional Replay-Authority systems depend upon a small set of irreducible constitutional primitives. Building on prior work defining Constitutional Replay, Computational Legitimacy, and the Computational Legitimacy Gap, the paper proposes a framework for identifying primitives that govern the creation, preservation, and evaluation of replay-authoritative legitimacy. Using criteria including non-derivability, constitutional necessity, governance function, and failure uniqueness, the analysis evaluates key concepts within the Constitutional Replay architecture. The paper identifies Authority Origination, Authority Singularity, Governance Freezing, Explicit Materialization, Fail-Closed Design, and Legitimacy State Theory as foundational constitutional primitives and examines their relationships within a broader legitimacy-governance hierarchy. The results suggest that Constitutional Replay-Authority constitutes a distinct infrastructure category centered on governing the conditions under which computational legitimacy may be authoritatively established, denied, and preserved.