In this fifth edition of The Republic’s Conscience — Edition 22, continuing the 10-day The First Amendment as Signal Architecture series, Nicolin Decker advances the framework into constitutional throughput theory—introducing Jurisdictional Signal Translation (JST), Signal Saturation Threshold (SST), Translation Collapse, and Representational Signal Misalignment (RSM) as structural conditions governing how constitutional systems process communicative signal under modern amplification conditions.

Building upon Day 4’s framework of jurisdictional segmentation and federalist processing architecture, the episode argues that constitutional governance depends not merely upon speech itself, but upon the institutional capacity to translate decentralized signal into governance-relevant authority through attribution, filtration, seq ...