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American Samoa

Revised Constitution of American Samoa, from Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomaveaga, American Samoa's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Other historical documents, laws, and deeds on the political relationship between the United States and American Samoa, also from Congressman Faleomaveaga.

American Samoa Bar Association Legal Resources, an excellent searchable collection of online American Samoa legal resources, including the Revised Constitution of American Samoa, Territorial Organic Documents, the American Samoa Code, American Samoa Reports - Third Series (1997 to date), - Second Series (1978 - 1996), and - First Series (1901 - 1974), the American Samoa Digest, the American Samoa Administrative Code (Regulations), and the Rules of Court.

A few decisions of the Supreme Court of American Samoa are also available from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law. 

United States laws primarily affecting American Samoa, collected in title 48 of the United States Code, from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

U.S. law on American Samoa's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives,  from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

Territorial Submerged Lands Act: United States law conveying submerged lands to American Samoa, from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

Curfews, Culture, and Custom in American Samoa: An Analytical Map for Applying the U.S. Constitution to U.S. Territories, by Daniel E. Hall, in volume 2 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page 69 (Winter 2001)(PDF 151K)

Links to other research sites for American Samoa.

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The Freely Associated States of Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Republic of Palau

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