In this Republic’s Conscience edition of The Whitepaper, Nicolin Decker presents The Jurisdictional Signal Integrity Doctrine (JSI): Representation, Broadcast Power, and the Constitutional Architecture of Coherence—a constitutional diagnostic framework explaining how representative institutions can degrade without constitutional violation, as lawful speech and modern broadcast conditions overwhelm the bounded signal environments the Founding design presupposed.

We have spent decades debating motives—partisanship, polarization, bad faith. JSI asks a more structural question:

What happens when the signal environment surrounding Congress becomes larger than Congress was designed to metabolize?

🔹 Core Thesis

JSI introduces a novel descriptive concept: Repres ...