Evidentiary authority is the counterweight that keeps interior sovereignty from curdling into the claim that all beliefs are equally valid. The framework separates two rights that are constantly confused:
The right to hold a belief is not the right to have that belief treated as equally reliable for every purpose.
You may believe a bridge is unsafe on intuition and keep your full standing; but on the question of whether it carries forty tons, engineering evidence has greater decision jurisdiction, because others drive across it. Belief freedom is interior; evidentiary authority governs shared factual questions where consequences fall on people who did not share the belief. The distinction runs both ways: it blocks an institution from compelling belief, and it blocks a participant from insisting a private conviction be recorded as public fact. It is the same consequence-weighted logic the model uses everywhere — the weight of a claim on shared reality scales with who bears the results. See Interiority.