Legal corpus: seed U.S. Code Title 52

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+# Legal Corpus
+
+Republic OS mirrors law as deterministic terrain before it interprets law as intelligence.
+
+The legal pipeline is deliberately mechanical:
+
+```text
+official source -> raw snapshot -> normalized legal tree -> manifest -> checksums -> git diff
+```
+
+The first legal corpus is a seed import of the United States Code, Title 52,
+Voting and Elections, from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel XML release
+point current through Public Law 119-100.
+
+## Layout
+
+```text
+data/legal/raw/us/code/
+  title-52/
+    xml_usc52@119-100.zip
+    usc52.xml
+
+data/legal/manifests/
+  us-code-title-52-119-100.json
+
+data/legal/checksums/
+  us-code-title-52-119-100.sha256
+
+legal/us/code/
+  title-52/
+    chapter-101/
+      section-10101.md
+```
+
+The raw ZIP is the provenance anchor. The generated Markdown is the readable
+legal tree. The manifest records source hashes, output hashes, release metadata,
+and the section list.
+
+## Discipline
+
+Legal corpus ingestion does not summarize, classify authority, infer
+relationships, or answer legal questions. Later layers can extract citations,
+definitions, amendments, and authority links from this base. The base itself is
+just a reproducible mirror.
+
+## Rebuild
+
+```bash
+make legal-us-code
+make validate
+```
+
+The success condition is that rebuilding from the same pinned source produces
+the same normalized legal files and checksums.