What This Field Means
What is known about how the unit was constituted, organized, activated, commissioned, or otherwise formally brought into being.
This summarizes what the evidence actually establishes about the unit’s formal creation or organizational standing. It can distinguish constitution, establishment, organization, activation, commissioning, provisional formation, and unresolved cases.
How to Read It Correctly
Constitution Status is not Current Status and not Unit Permanence. It describes how organizational existence was established, not whether the unit operates today or whether it was intended to be permanent.
Example
Formally constituted; separately organized; commissioning established; exact authority unresolved.
Technical Specification
The database column is [USMIL-Unit].[Unit].[ConstitutionStatus]. Required evidence-derived constitutional-status narrative. It is separate from Current Status and from the date of activation or commissioning.
Use a complete evidence-based conclusion rather than a bare yes or no. State the constitutional event or standing that is supported and make any unresolved portion visible.
| Property | Definition or current value |
|---|---|
| Database column | ConstitutionStatus |
| Column order | 12 |
| SQL data type | nvarchar(128) |
| Kind of information | Evidence-derived text |
| Cardinality | One stored value per Unit row. |
| Required | Yes |
| Database default | No database default |
| Key or relationship | None |
| Database check constraint | ([CurrentStatus]=N'Planned' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Status unknown' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Historical' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Inactive' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Current') |
| Live population | 9341 of 9341 Unit records (100%) |
| Distinct nonblank values in the live table | 1664 |
| Live profile measured | September 2, 2026, 20:43 UTC |
Allowed Values and Definitions
No preset menu applies to this field. It stores an identifier, relationship, measurement, date, timestamp, or evidence-derived narrative. Valid content is governed by the SQL type, key relationship, nullability, retained evidence, and the field-specific recording rule above. A list of observed contents would be data, not a list of allowed options.
Missing, Unknown, and Conflicting Information
This column cannot be NULL in the Unit table. When the underlying fact is incomplete, the record must use an allowed explicit disposition or a supported evidence-derived statement. Required storage does not mean that every historical fact is known, and it never authorizes a guessed value.
Connections to Other Fields
- Authorizing Authority — The department, service, command, law, order, or official body that established or recognized the organization.
- Authorization Document — The official order, directive, roster, law, or other record that supports the unit’s creation or recognition.
- Unit Permanence — Whether the organization was standing, provisional, temporary, task-organized, or known only for a particular historical period.
- Activation or Commission Date — The documented date the unit was activated or a ship or cutter command was commissioned.
- Current Status — Whether the unit is currently operating, belongs to history, was formally inactivated, is planned, or has an unresolved present status.