Fundamental legal document(s) online
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| Guam
Organic Act |
| Guam
Organic Act
and Related Federal Laws Affecting the Governmental Structure of Guam,
with annotations on related court decisions and other materials; current
through June 11, 2001 (PDF) |
| Treaty
of Peace Between the United States and Spain, December 10, 1898
(the Treaty of Paris), from
the Avalon Project at
Yale
Law
School |
Other legal documents online
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| Guam
Code Annotated, from the Supreme Court of Guam's Compiler of
Laws |
| Public Laws enacted
since the 18th Guam Legislature (1985-1986), and bills introduced since
the 28th Guam Legislature (2005-2006). (Select "Public
Laws" or "Bills" in the menu bar near the top of the
page) |
| Supreme
Court decisions, from 1996 on from the Guam Supreme Court (PDF) |
| Guam
Administrative Regulations, from the Supreme Court of Guam's
Compiler of Laws |
| Guam War Claims Review Commission, Report
on the Implementation of the Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 1945,
including Findings and Recommendations (2004), pursuant to the
Guam War Claims Review Commission Act, United States Public Law
107-333, from the Office of Guam's Delegate to the United States House
of Representative (PDF 1,326K) |
Sources and other useful websites
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| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Digital
Micronesia: Guam - History, from Professor Dirk H.R. Spennemann |
| Government of Guam |
| Guam,
map and basic demographic and economic data from the South Pacific
Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the University of the
South Pacific |
| Guam, Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C. |
| Guam,
from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Guam,
from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| Guam Economic Development Authority |
| Guam:
Inarajan,
an exceptionally rich website from Pacific Worlds |
| Guam
Socio-Economic Indicators, from the Government of Guam's Bureau
of Planning |
| The Guam Website |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2011 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 80K) |
| An Update on the Economies of Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
by Wali M. Osman (2004) (DOC 42K) |
| U.S. Census Bureau,
2000 Population Counts for Guam
(press release) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
| More
ISLAND LAW links for Guam |
Selected articles on law and political status
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| Guam’s
Future Political Status: An Argument for Free Association with U.S.
Citizenship, by Hannah M.T. Gutierrez, in volume 4 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page
56 (February 2003) (PDF 256K) |
| Guam's
Quest for Political Identity, by Robert F. Rogers, in volume 12
of the Journal of Pacific Studies, at page 49 (November 1988) (PDF
66K) |
| "Respeta
I Taotao Tano": The Recognition and Establishment of the
Self-Determination and Sovereign Rights of the Indigenous Chamorros of
Guam Under International, Federal, and Local Law, by Anthony T.J.
Quan, in volume 3 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page
56 (February 2002) (PDF 763K) |
| Second-Class
Citizens: The Separate and Unequal Treatment of Our Far-Flung
Territories, by Chris Mooney, in Legal Affairs (July-August
2003) |
| United Nations Secretariat, Working
Paper on Guam, prepared for the Special Committee of the U.N.
General Assembly on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of
the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples (A/AC.109/2004/5, March 12, 2004) (PDF) |
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