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American Samoa
(Territory of the U.S.)

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Revised Constitution of American Samoa (U.S. Representative Eni F. H. Faleomavaega

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Executive

  • American Samoa Governor
  • American Samoa Administrative Code (American Samoa Bar Association)
  • U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs - includes American Samoa pagand the Report on the State of the Islands

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Judicial

  • COURTS: High Court of American Samoa (appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior)
  • American Samoa Reports (American Samoa Bar Association)
  • American Samoa Digests (American Samoa Bar Association)
  • Rules of Court of the Judiciary of American Samoa (American Samoa Bar Association_
  • Supreme Court of American Samoa (PacLII) includes four cases from 1977, 1981, 1988, and 1989

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Legislative

  • PARLIAMENT: Fono [Legislative Assembly], consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate
  • American Samoa Code Annotated (American Samoa Bar Association)
  • Historical Documents, Laws, and Deeds (U.S. Representative Eni F. H. Faleomavaega)
  • United States Code:
    • 48 U.S.C.§1661 et seq. (U.S. House of Representative)
    • 48 U.S.C.§1661 et seq. (U.S. Government Printing Office)
    • 48 U.S.C.§1661 et seq. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
  • U.S. Representative Eni F. H. Faleomavaega

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Legal Guides

  • Multinational Collections Database: American Samoa (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • American Law Sources On-line: American Samoa
  • American Samoa Bar Association
  • General Question of American Samoa, G.A. Res. 36/48, U.N. Doc. A/RES/36/48 (1971) (United Nations) November 24, 1971
  • Guide: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Guide: U.S. States & Territories: Legal Links (Law Library of Congress)
  • Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources (Ruth Bird, via LLRX) April 15, 2002; includes American Samoa
  • LexisOne: American Samoa
  • PacLII Databases: American Samoa
  • World Legal Information Institute: American Samoa (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from Asia: American Samoa (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Portals to the World: American Samoa (Library of Congress)
  • Governments on the WWW: Samoa, American (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • NEWS: Portals to the World Media and Communications; Samoa News
  • State and Local Government on the Net: American Samoa (State Local Gov)
  • World Factbook: American Samoa (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: American Samoa (Google); American Samoa (Yahoo); WWW-VL Pacific Studies (Australian National University)

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Last Updated: 10/14/2009

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