Constitutionally Governed Infrastructure

Infrastructure determines more than throughput. Queues, schedulers, routers, allocation rules, eligibility checks, administrative pipelines, and communication channels shape which continuations are available, timely, affordable, visible, or practically unreachable before an explicit decision is made. This paper develops Constitutionally Governed Infrastructure (CGI) as a framework for bringing materially consequential continuation-control machinery inside constitutional review. The claim requires an important distinction. Not every causal influence exercises authority. Terrain, weather, component failure, and passive physical constraints can shape possibility without possessing discretion or legitimate power. Infrastructure becomes constitutionally relevant when a mechanism materially and persistently controls access, order, timing, allocation, disclosure, or effect under rules or configurations that can be selected, delegated, contested, captured, or changed. Such control may express legitimate authority, delegated authority, de facto power, or unauthorized authority migration. Those categories must not be collapsed. CGI therefore requires more than receipts. A governed infrastructure surface must bind mechanism identity, jurisdiction, authority, policy, configuration, inputs, outputs, affected subjects, reasons, evidence, challenge, remedy, liveness, emergency behavior, privacy, security, revision, and measurable outcomes. Reconstructability is necessary but does not itself establish fairness, legitimacy, correctness, or accountability. The source's Universal Governance Kernel (UGK) scheduler is retained as an internal architectural example rather than an empirical demonstration. Its concepts of earned independence, constitutional scheduling, and infrastructure receipts generate testable obligations, but the supplied paper contains no implementation evidence, performance benchmark, scheduler trace, or deployment comparison. The paper also limits its extension from software to institutions and civilizational systems: a common constitutional grammar may travel, while domain law, rights, evidence, remedies, and failure costs do not automatically transfer. This revision formalizes effective continuation structure, defines constitutional coverage, integrates CGI with Dynatology, Constitutional Computation, Governance Coverage Gaps, receipts, work custody, constraint-bearing composition, GMB, and the universal GSM, and locates the framework in the full realization funnel. It remains a proposal and specification, not a proven institutional or technical system.