https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/law_war_manual15.pdf
11.3. how would it verify?
would like moar eyes on. especially the footnotes in 11.1 and 11.2. if i am reading this correctly, this would not be "just another four year election". it would be much sooner:
it looks to me like an election would be how the military returned power to the civilian / executive.
there was significant panic of Communist takeover when this was (re) written.
it was worded for just this kind of insurrection / occupation.
https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/law_war_manual15.pdf
11.1.2.4Occupation and the 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention. The1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention applies to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if this occupation meets with no armed resistance.16
pg. 736
(“There are under the Constitution three kinds of military jurisdiction: one to be exercised both in peace and war; another to be exercised in time of foreign war without the boundaries of the United States, or in time of rebellion and civil war within states or districts occupied by rebels treated as belligerents; and a third to be exercised in time of invasion or insurrection within the limits of the United States, or during rebellion within the limits of states maintaining adhesion to the National Government, when the public danger requires its exercise. The first of these may be called jurisdiction under MILITARY LAW, and is found in acts of Congress prescribing rules and articles of war, or otherwise providing for the government of the national forces; the second may be distinguished as MILITARY GOVERNMENT, superseding, as far as may be deemed expedient, the local law, and exercised by the military commander under the direction of the President, with the express or implied sanction of Congress; while the third may be denominated MARTIAL LAW PROPER, and is called into action by Congress, or temporarily, when the action of Congress cannot be invited, and in the case of justifying or excusing peril, by the President, in times of
pg. 737 insurrection or invasion