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Further rights guaranteed by ''Article One'' include the right of a metahuman citizen to not have his or her powers permanently disabled or removed without a separate trial (if the person is sentenced to long-term incarceration) to determine if this is warranted, justifiable, and if doing so constitutes 'double jeopardy'. Article One also acts to expand upon those rights to establish that citizens of signatory nations who either possesses powers, has latent or suppressed powers, or possess genetic markers that may be passed down to future offspring may not be penalized in any manner specifically because of such circumstances in terms of legal sanctions on any level of their society; this includes discrimination in terms of rights of service at any public merchandising forum (i.e. stores, restaurants, drinking establishments, amusement facilities, libraries, etc), employment, housing, education, medical care, freedom of worship, ability to enter into marriage/civil unions, or freely procreate.

Known as the ''Article of Empowerment'', ''Article One'' is arguably the single most powerful part of the Bowman Acts that directly affects the everyday lives of the average citizen of any signatory nation. (It is arguably one of the most controversial articles, as some citizens of some nations see it as a back-door precedent to expanding basic rights to all individuals; it has also been argued in the U.S. that it is unconstitutional, but it has been noted that this argument is ~~invalid~~, as the Acts were in fact ratified by the U.S. Congress and because the United States is a representative democracy, 'the needs of the people' were in fact considered in this ratification.)

Known as the ''Article of Empowerment'', ''Article One'' is arguably the single most powerful part of the Bowman Acts that directly affects the everyday lives of the average citizen of any signatory nation. (It is arguably one of the most controversial articles, as some citizens of some nations see it as a back-door precedent to expanding basic rights to all individuals; it has also been argued in the U.S. that it is unconstitutional, but it has been noted that this argument has been invalidated in court. In addition, as the Acts were in fact ratified by the U.S. Congress and because the United States is a representative democracy, 'the needs of the people' were in fact considered in this ratification.)

Another well-known section of the ''Acts'' is ''Article Two'' of the Bowman Act of 1982; it calls for and defines a 'mutual-defense treaty', in which all signatory nations have promised to provide information, materials and intelligence/military forces (as needed) for the purpose of defending the entire planet from imminent threats of natures specifically stated in the ''Acts''. Article Two also places specific restrictions upon military and intelligence assets of signatory nations from dissemination of information related to operations involving metahuman activities of which they have either participated in or become aware of without prior consent for said dissemination. (This is a noticeable point, as it sets in place greater restrictions beyond those enumerated in Article One.)