Marianas Political Status: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, D.C. April 14, 1975U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 132 Seiten |
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acres Ambassador WILLIAMS amendments American approves the Covenant areas Article authority BENITEZ BURTON Canham Carolinian Chairman citizens CLAUSEN Committee Congress of Micronesia Congressman Constitution or laws covenant provides Covenant to Establish domiciled effective date elected Establish a Commonwealth Farallon de Medinilla February 15 future political status Guam GUERRERO Harbor hectares House income tax INSULAR AFFAIRS interest Interior Islands District Legislature Islands in Political LAGOMARSINO land lease leaseback Mariana Islands District Marianas District Legislature Marianas Political Status Micronesian Status Negotiations military Northern Mariana Islands Pacific Islands Pangelinan Personal Representative Plebiscite Appellate Court Plebiscite Commissioner plebiscite education program Political Status Commission political union President provisions question respect ROGERS C. B. MORTON Saipan Secretary Section 702 self-government signing subcommittee Subsection Tanapag Harbor termination Tinian Municipal Trust Territory Trusteeship Agreement U.S. Congress U.S. Constitution U.S. Government U.S. Navy United Nations United States Government VIGORITO vote Voter Registration Board West Field
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Seite 12 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution : for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 14 - Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America...
Seite 12 - I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die.
Seite 12 - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Seite 41 - That hereafter all taxes collected under the internal revenue laws of the United States on articles produced in Puerto Rico and transported to the United States, or consumed in the island shall be covered into the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
Seite 13 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Seite 26 - The laws of the United States relating to appeals, writs of error, removal of causes, and other matters and proceedings, as between the courts of the United States and the courts of the several States shall govern in such matters and proceedings as between the courts of the United States and the courts of the Territory of Hawaii.
Seite 19 - This Covenant will be mutually binding when it is approved by the United States, by the Mariana Islands District Legislature and by the people of the Northern Mariana Islands in a plebiscite, constituting on their part a sovereign act of selfdetermination.
Seite 24 - Section, who have been domiciled continuously in the Northern Mariana Islands for at least five years immediately prior to that date, and who, unless under age, registered to vote in elections for the...
Seite 10 - States has been of interest to both the executive and legislative branches of my government. Close consultations have been held with key majority and minority leaders of the Interior Committees of both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before and throughout these negotiations. The views of our own lawmakers have thus also been fully considered as we have progressed.