The live split is what "assembly" covers. The essay owns the missing public decision frame: a form a non-specialist can pick up, with named variables and a test. Two statutes never became operations, and that is a different object. Title II of Pub. L. 88-164 (Community Mental Health Centers Act, 1963) paid to build centers and not to run them; the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-398) was signed and then mostly repealed by Pub. L. 97-35 before it could run. The Climate Change Act 2008 already has the frame and the teeth — five-year carbon budgets, a statutory committee, sections 13 and 14 — and the High Court still found the operations plan unlawful in 2022 and again in 2024. Discriminator: after a duty is named, does a published package add up (owners, money that outlasts the authorization, a number that can come in red), or can a court or a center-count show that it does not? Author dispositions stay author-owned.