AP-023: Metrology of Constitutions — Toward a Science of Measuring Epistemic Governance Systems

If epistemic constitutions are to become standard objects of scientific comparison, then the field requires instruments of measurement. This paper proposes the foundations of a metrology for epistemic constitutions: a systematic framework for measuring, evaluating, and comparing epistemic governance systems along eight candidate dimensions. We propose the blind constitutional trial as the gold standard experimental design: multiple independent teams implementing the same published constitution with different underlying models, comparing the convergence of their epistemic outputs.