• Thumbnail for Constitution of Samoa
    The Constitution of Samoa is a written constitution which is the supreme law in Samoa. It establishes Samoa as a parliamentary republic with a Westminster...
    23 KB (2,496 words) - 04:31, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa
    American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14°18′S 170°42′W...
    178 KB (17,614 words) - 03:53, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samoa
    Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting...
    107 KB (10,152 words) - 19:45, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prime Minister of Samoa
    The prime minister of the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Palemia o le Malo Tuto’atasi o Sāmoa) is the head of government of Samoa. The prime minister...
    21 KB (961 words) - 04:31, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religion in Samoa
    religion in Samoa, with its various denominations accounting for around 98% of the total population. The article 1 of the Constitution of Samoa states that...
    11 KB (1,069 words) - 05:58, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa Fono
    The American Samoa Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most states and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a...
    21 KB (1,720 words) - 21:13, 18 November 2024
  • The Constitution of American Samoa is the constitution that defines the government of American Samoa. Unlike constitutions of a state, it is subject to...
    5 KB (549 words) - 11:15, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for O le Ao o le Malo
     'chief of the state' in Samoan) is the ceremonial head of state of Samoa. The position is described in Part III of the 1960 Samoan constitution. At the...
    20 KB (1,453 words) - 15:47, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2024 American Samoan general election
    held in American Samoa on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters elected a governor, lieutenant governor, faipule (members) of the House of Representatives...
    15 KB (684 words) - 09:53, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Politics of American Samoa
    to both American Samoa and independent Samoa. The government of American Samoa is defined under the Constitution of American Samoa. As an unincorporated...
    6 KB (624 words) - 17:55, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Politics of Samoa
    Politics of Samoa takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic state whereby the Prime Minister of Samoa is the head of government...
    21 KB (2,863 words) - 11:04, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elections in American Samoa
    The American Samoan Legislature or Fono has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which has a directly elected head of government,...
    5 KB (450 words) - 09:24, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supreme Court of Samoa
    Part VI of the Constitution of Samoa. It consists of the Chief Justice of Samoa and other judges as appointed by the Head of State on the advice of the Prime...
    5 KB (509 words) - 00:01, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa House of Representatives
    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...
    8 KB (584 words) - 06:09, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa Senate
    States of the World for the Year 1954, S. H. Steinberg. Constitution of American Samoa, 1960. Revised Constitution of American Samoa, American Samoa Bar...
    10 KB (622 words) - 17:27, 2 November 2024
  • government of American Samoa is defined under the Constitution of American Samoa. The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided...
    8 KB (788 words) - 14:59, 28 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Territories of the United States
    territory. American Samoa is locally self-governing under a constitution last revised in 1967. The first elected governor of American Samoa was in 1977, and...
    176 KB (14,591 words) - 11:10, 17 November 2024
  • the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands was deemed approved. The Constitution of the Territory of American Samoa was signed by 68 members of the...
    22 KB (1,534 words) - 07:07, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Territory of Western Samoa
    Territory of Western Samoa was the civil administration of Western Samoa by New Zealand between 1920 and Samoan independence in 1962. In 1914, German Samoa was...
    16 KB (1,284 words) - 14:59, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chief Justice of Samoa
    qualifications and powers of the office are governed by Part VI of the Constitution of Samoa and the Judicature Ordinance 1961. The position is currently...
    27 KB (2,449 words) - 21:01, 23 October 2024
  • is a list of national constitutions by country, semi-recognized countries, and by codification. A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained...
    35 KB (1,130 words) - 21:02, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Samoa
    The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion. Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history...
    25 KB (3,182 words) - 03:42, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legislative Assembly of Samoa
    Assembly (Samoan: Fono Aoao Faitulafono a Samoa), also known as the Parliament of Samoa (Samoan: Palemene o Samoa), is the national legislature of Samoa, seated...
    21 KB (1,295 words) - 04:33, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Administrative divisions of American Samoa
    Division of districts into counties, Code Annotated, American Samoa Bar Association. Revised Constitution of American Samoa, American Samoa Bar Association...
    33 KB (908 words) - 08:46, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samoans
    Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the...
    35 KB (4,277 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of governors of American Samoa
    This is a list of governors, etc. of the part of the Samoan Islands (now comprising American Samoa) under United States administration since 1900. From...
    21 KB (536 words) - 00:52, 22 November 2024
  • optional protocols to the CRC. While the Constitution of the Independent State of Samoa provides for the protection of certain fundamental human rights, there...
    55 KB (6,578 words) - 04:38, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of states and territories of the United States
    Congressional directive on governance, the people of American Samoa adopted a constitution in 1967, and then in 1977, elected territorial officials for...
    42 KB (1,936 words) - 18:10, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Constitution of the United States
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
    188 KB (20,863 words) - 14:20, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fagatogo, American Samoa
    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...
    25 KB (2,875 words) - 14:00, 14 November 2024