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The Compact of Free
Association Act, U.S. Public Law 99-239 (1986), by which the Compact was
approved by the United States, is available online from the Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations of the Federated
States of Micronesia.
The Government of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Government of
the United States entered into a number of "Subsidiary
Agreements" to the Compact of Free Association. The Joint Committee
on Compact Economic Negotiations has made these Compact-related agreements
available online:
Army Corps of
Engineers Agreement
Compact
Implementation Agreement
Extradition, Mutual
Assistance in Law Enforcement Matters and Penal Sanctions Agreement
Federal Programs and
Services Agreement
Fiscal Procedures
Agreement
Friendship, Cooperation
and Mutual Security Agreement
Investment Development
Fund Agreement
Marine Sovereignty and
Jurisdiction Agreement
Maritime Search and
Rescue Agreement
Military Use and
Operating Rights Agreement
Mutual Assistance in
Law Enforcement Agreement
Property Transfer
Agreement
Status of Forces
Agreement
Telecommunications
Agreement
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The United States and the Federated States of Micronesia have negotiated
amendments to the Compact of Free Association. The Amended
Compact of Free Association (PDF) is available from the Pacific Islands Development
Program at the East-West Center. The Amended
Compact and its revised
Subsidiary Agreements for the Federated States are available from the Joint Committee on
Compact Economic Negotiations of the Federated States of Micronesia.
The Joint Committee has also made available online many of the agreed texts, negotiating positions,
joint communiques, press releases, and background materials on these
negotiations. (Many of these documents are in PDF format.)
Another good source on the status talks is Compacts
of Free Association Renegotiations, from the Pacific Islands
Development Program/East-West Center in Hawaii. This website collects links to the
current text of the Compact, statements and proposals by the negotiating
teams, news articles on the negotiations, U.S. General Accounting Office
reports relevant to the negotiations, and other sources.
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The following are alternative sources for some of the documents
available at the Legal
Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia:
Public Laws of the Federated States of Micronesia from June 1995, in PDF format. In
addition to the full text of laws enacted since June 1995, tables set out the
titles of all laws passed between the founding of the Federated States of
Micronesia in 1979 to June 1995, also in PDF format; this link was not working when
Island
Law
was last updated.
Selected Federated States of Micronesia statutes,
laws, judicial decisions, and other legal materials are also
available from the
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South
Pacific School of Law.
United States
laws pertaining to the Federated States of Micronesia (and the
Republic of the Marshall Islands), as collected in title 48 of the United States
Code, from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.
Through through Internet Archive, it is still possible to obtain from the Third Constitutional
Convention of the Federated States of Micronesia (2001) the text of the
Fourteen Proposed Amendments to the FSM Constitution and the Journal
of the Convention. Each of these proposals was defeated in an
August 2002 referendum.
Analysis of the Fourteen Proposed Amendments to the FSM
Constitution (as amended), by John R. Haglelgam, President of the
3d FSM Constitutional Convention, Regent Professor at the College of
Micronesia-FSM, and former President of the
Federated States of Micronesia; this article, written after the 3d
Constitutional Convention but before the referendum on the proposed amendments, is available in the library on this website.
The FSM Constitution
and the 2001 Constitutional Convention, an article by John Haglelgam,
Regent Professor, College of Micronesia-FSM and former President of the
Federated States of Micronesia, written before the 3d Constitutional Convention; best viewed with Internet Explorer.
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Custom and
Constitutionalism in the Federated States of Micronesia, by Edward C.
King, in volume 3 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page 249
(July 2002) (PDF 322K). King was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Bills
and resolutions, committee
reports, and journals
of the Congress
of the Federated States of Micronesia; the
"journals"
link was not working when
Island
Law
was last updated.
The criminal
justice system of the Federated States of Micronesia, a narrative
description from the World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems (1993), prepared
by Daniel E. Hall of the University of Central Florida and published by the U.S.
Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
United States Regulations Governing
Habitual Residence of Citizens of the Freely Associated States of Micronesia
in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, on this website.
Links to other research sites
for the Federated States of Micronesia.
Other links to island legal documents online:
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