In the years preceding the Civil War, 12 publications were promulgated under a number of titles by the president, the Navy Department, and the secretary of the Navy. This was followed the next year by “An Act for the Better Government of the Navy of the United States.” Navy’s first Constitutional law that provided rules and regulations.
It was not until “An Act for the Government of the Navy of the United States,” enacted 2 March 1799, that Congress established the U.S. The rules contained 44 articles that “established for preserving their rights and defending their liberties, and for encouraging all those who feel for their country, to enter into its service in that way in which they can be most useful.” The articles ranged from the commanders authority to instill discipline and obedience to the commander in chief of the fleet’s power to pardon and remit any sentence of death that shall be given in consequence of any of the articles.
Navy regulations began when the Second Continental Congress enacted the Rules for the Regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies on 28 November 1775.
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