AUTHORITY ORIGINATION AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL GENESIS OF AUTHORITY A Constitutional Theory of Authority Origination in Replay-Authoritative Systems

Abstract Prior Constitutional Replay-Authority research established how governing constitutional reality may be preserved and examined through replay-authoritative determination but did not explain how authority becomes associated with the governance constructs that participate in a decision condition. This paper proposes Authority Origination as the constitutional process through which governance constructs acquire authority, distinguishing it from artifact creation, replay-authoritative preservation, and legitimacy determination. The analysis further examines the problem of authority regress and introduces the Constitutional Termination Principle, under which replay-authoritative determination requires a constitutionally sufficient authority lineage terminating in a recognized authority foundation. Together, these concepts establish a constitutional framework explaining how authority is acquired, justified, preserved, and later examined through replay-authoritative processes. The paper concludes that authority itself constitutes a replay-relevant constitutional object and represents a constitutional layer logically prior to the replay-authoritative primitives previously established within the Constitutional Replay-Authority corpus.