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The Code empowers the executive branch, but the mirror only had legislative Bodies — every authority reference pointed at nothing. Fixed by minting the executive branch from the Code's OWN enumerations: 15 Cabinet departments (5 U.S.C. § 101) + 21 Executive-Schedule Level I offices (§ 5312), 42 Body nodes under us/executive/. Then the axis: scripts/extract_authority.py matches named office/department references across all 59,740 sections (guarding against Deputy/Assistant/Under subordinates) and emits data/section_authority_edges.jsonl — 27,804 edges from 17,031 sections (28.7% of the Code) to the offices they empower. build.py renders reciprocal 'empowered by' links on each office node; the section files are never touched. Now: click the Attorney General, see all 2,386 sections that vest authority in it. Named references only in v1 (cabinet-level). Deterministic; body.schema classification enum extended (executive-department/-agency/-office); make check green at 105,746 records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: Body
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title: "Department of Defense"
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classification: "executive-department"
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chamber: "executive"
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code: "EXEC-DEFENSE"
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head: "us/executive/defense/secretary"
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sources:
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- field: definition
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source: "5 U.S.C. § 101 (Executive departments)"
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confidence: official
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tags: [body, executive, executive-department]
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timestamp: "2026-07-03"
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---
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# Department of Defense
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Executive department, established by 5 U.S.C. § 101. Headed by the [Secretary of Defense](/us/executive/defense/secretary.md).
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## Referenced by the U.S. Code
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1,718 sections of the U.S. Code reference this department. A sample:
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- [1 U.S.C. § 112b](/legal/us/code/title-01/chapter-2/section-112b.md)
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- [2 U.S.C. § 1970](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-29/section-1970.md)
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- [2 U.S.C. § 4726](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-47/section-4726.md)
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- [2 U.S.C. § 900](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-20/section-900.md)
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- [2 U.S.C. § 905](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-20/section-905.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 101](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-1/section-101.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 2109](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-21/section-2109.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 303](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-3/section-303.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 305](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-3/section-305.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3115](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3115.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3116](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3116.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3132](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3132.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3133](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3133.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3301](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3301.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3304](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3304.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3307](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3307.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3326](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3326.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3327](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3327.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3329](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3329.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3330d](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3330d.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3330g](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3330g.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3341](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3341.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3361](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3361.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3401](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-34/section-3401.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 3502](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-35/section-3502.md)
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- …and 1,693 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)
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