SOURCE 0 AND THE REFERENCE LEGITIMACY GAP — THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONDITION GOVERNANCE CANNOT DEFER 

The Reference Legitimacy Gap designates the structural interval between what a governance architecture documents and what it can actually verify. Without prior fixation, the evaluative reference becomes a variable adjustable after the fact by any party with sufficient interest and access. This article establishes the Mandate of Antecedence as the minimum architectural condition under which governance produces proof rather than narrative.