FM_N_2 The Impossibility of Governance Level Generalization

This paper establishes that governance cannot be generalized across systems, domains, or contexts without violating admissibility. Any attempt to formulate governance at a higher, unifying level is shown to depend on illicit scope expansion, hidden anchoring, or implicit standing transfer. The analysis proceeds by exhaustion. It demonstrates that abstract governance principles, universal oversight layers, or cross-domain control schemes either collapse into vacuity—providing no admissible constraint—or smuggle in unauthorized assumptions that only appear coherent by suppressing their dependence on local definitions. Once admissibility is enforced, no governance structure remains that can operate independently of the specific context it governs. The result fixes a hard limit on governance abstraction. Governance must be local, context-bound, and definition-dependent; there is no admissible meta-governance layer that can subsume or coordinate distinct regimes. The paper introduces no governance models or implementation pathways. It records an impossibility result that places governance-level generalization outside the space of admissible reasoning.