Abstract Constitutional Reconstruction ends before scientific admission. A completed reconstruction may contain a fixed scope, Primitive Inventory, dependency graph, governed gaps, Generic Mapping, authorized candidates, covered bounded reconstructions, registered benchmarks, a benchmark set, an expansion stop, and preserved Trace. None of these outputs determines whether the resulting architecture organizes the accepted knowledge of the domain as a whole, whether it performs constitutionally relative to existing scientific architectures, or whether it is eligible to enter a Scientific Architecture. A methodological layer is therefore required after Reconstruction and before Admission. This paper defines that layer as Constitutional Evaluation. Constitutional Evaluation receives a completed and frozen Constitutional Reconstruction. It does not modify the reconstruction, introduce mechanisms, perform empirical validation, or assign scientific admission. It evaluates the frozen architecture through two ordered protocols: Coverage Audit and Comparative Evaluation. Coverage Audit determines whether every in-scope unit of established scientific knowledge is constitutionally organized by the reconstruction without additional constitutional structure. Comparative Evaluation determines how the covered reconstruction performs relative to eligible and frozen scientific architectures under scope-equivalent constitutional dimensions. Only after both protocols have closed may an Admission Runtime be opened. The paper specifies the formal objects, evaluation units, frozen inputs, state architecture, gates, mandatory tests, mapping rules, metrics, verdicts, failure classes, stop conditions, reopening rules, governance requirements, ledgers, and runtime transitions required for this post-reconstruction layer. It also defines Scientific Admission as a separate, version-specific constitutional decision. Scientific Admission does not establish empirical truth. It determines whether a completed architecture has satisfied the constitutional conditions required to enter the scientific-architecture layer under explicit status, scope, limitations, and revision rules. The resulting lifecycle is: Domain Selection -> Constitutional Reconstruction -> Covered Benchmark Set -> Reconstruction Freeze -> Coverage Audit -> Comparative Evaluation -> Evaluation Closure -> Admission Review -> Admission Decision -> Admission Registration -> Scientific Architecture. The central rule is that no later layer may repair an earlier layer by silent modification. Evaluation may identify the need for reopening, but only a new Reconstruction version may supply the repair.
Israel Don (Sun,) studied this question.