The American Samoa Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most states and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a bicameral...
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The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 members serving two-year terms, with...
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The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body. It...
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dependency, whereby the Governor of American Samoa is the head of government. Legislative power is vested in the American Samoa Fono. The judiciary is independent...
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capital of American Samoa. It is the location of the American Samoa Fono (legislature), and is listed in the Constitution of American Samoa as the territory's...
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faʻa Sāmoa is the language and customs, and the fa'amatai the protocols of the fono (council) and the chiefly system. The fa'amatai and the fono take...
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The American Samoan Legislature or Fono has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which has a directly elected head of government...
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legislature, the American Samoa Fono, which meets in the village of Fagatogo. In 1950 the Department of the Interior began to administer American Samoa. By 1956...
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Government, American Samoa Government. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. American Samoa Legislature (Fono), American Samoa Government....
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The government of American Samoa consists of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the American Samoa Fono, which consists of an 18-member...
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for non-Samoans. At the local level, much of the country's civil and criminal matters are dealt with by some 360 village chief councils, Fono o Matai...
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PAHNG-gaw-PAHNG-gaw; Samoan: Samoan pronunciation: [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo]) is the capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on Tutuila, which is American Samoa's main...
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Fono can refer to: American Samoa Fono, the legislature of American Samoa Legislative Assembly of Samoa, sometimes referred to as the Samoan Fono The...
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Faʻamatai (redirect from King of Samoa)
council or fono o matai and its members are the matai. The fono of matai is the executive and judicial authority of every village in Samoa. If a matter...
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held in American Samoa on 4 November 2014, alongside a constitutional referendum. Voters elected members of the Fono and the American Samoan delegate...
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Maine House of Representatives (Non-voting tribal delegates) American Samoa Fono: American Samoa House of Representatives (Swains Island) "Text searched:...
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Tuanaitau F. Tuia (category American Samoa Senators)
22, 2010) was an American Samoan politician and the longest-serving member of the American Samoan territorial legislature, the Fono, in history. Tuia...
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nonpartisan basis. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono (legislature). Although candidates do affiliate with national political...
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of American Samoa Cabinet of American Samoa American Samoa Fono (bicameral and nonpartisan) Upper house: American Samoa Senate Lower house: American Samoa...
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the ballot. The American Samoa Fono passed the proposal giving itself the authority to override a veto by the Governor of American Samoa. The proposal was...
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The 2024 American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses were held on March 5, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential...
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into Samoa (Western Samoa, Independent Samoa) and American Samoa (Eastern Samoa). The pre-colonial history of Eastern Samoa (now American Samoa) is inextricably...
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Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is a Polynesian island country consisting...
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Vernon Huber (category Governors of American Samoa)
the first governor to serve alongside a Samoan legislature, the American Samoa Fono. Huber was born on August 28, 1899, in Philadelphia, Illinois, to...
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to the American Samoa Fono to ban same-sex marriage. The measure was proposed a few years after the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA; Samoan: Tulafono...
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In: Igor Vivero Ávila (ed.), Democracia y reformas políticas en México y América Latina (pp. 219–246). Mexico: M. A. Porrúa. "Australia's Upper Houses –...
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Two-party system (section American)
2013, the Governor was a member of the Covenant Party. In American Samoa, the American Samoa Fono (territorial legislature) is non-partisan, and on ballots...
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Although American Samoa will not participate in the 2024 presidential election because it is a U.S. territory and not a state, it participated in the U...
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Although American Samoa did not participate in the 2020 presidential election because it is a U.S. territory and not a state, it still participated in...
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the Caribbean Sea and eleven in the Pacific Ocean. Five territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin...
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