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- http://jsc.defense.gov/Portals/99/Documents/MCM2016.pdf?ver=2016-12-08-181411-957
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2018-amendments-manual-courts-martial-united-states/
- Section 1. Part II, Part III, and Part IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, are amended as described in Annex 1, which is attached to and made a part of this order.
- APPENDIX 1
- CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—1787
- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
- perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide
- for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
- ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of
- America.
- ARTICLE I
- Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested
- in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a
- Senate and a House of Representatives.
- Sec. 2. The amendments in Annex 1 shall take effect on the date of this order, subject to the following:
- (a) Nothing in Annex 1 shall be construed to make punishable any act done or omitted prior to the date of this order that was not punishable when done or omitted.
- (b) Nothing in Annex 1 shall be construed to invalidate the prosecution of any offense committed before the date of this order. The maximum punishment for an offense committed before the date of this order shall not exceed the maximum punishment in effect at the time of the commission of such offense.
- (c) Nothing in Annex 1 shall be construed to invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior to the date of this order, and any such nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action shall proceed in the same manner and with the same effect as if the amendments in Annex 1 had not been prescribed.
- Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of
- Members chosen every second year by the people of the several
- states, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications
- requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State
- Legislature.
- No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained
- to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a
- Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be
- an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 1 Representative and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
- the several States which may be included within this Union,
- according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined
- by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those
- bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not
- taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration
- shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the
- Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term
- of ten Years in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The
- Number of Representative shall not exceed one for every thirty
- Thousand, but each state shall have at Least one Representative;
- and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New
- Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight,
- Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five,
- New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware
- o n e , M a r y l a n d s i x , V i r g i n i a t e n , N o r t h C a r o l i n a f i v e , S o u t h
- Carolina five, and Georgia three.
- When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state,
- the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to
- fill such Vacancies.
- The House of Representatives shall choose the Speaker and
- other officers; and shall have the sole power of Impeachment.
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