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The Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is the governing document of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("CNMI"). Its creation was required by the covenant between the United States and the CNMI. [1] It was drafted at a local constitutional convention in 1976, approved by territorial ...
The Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature is the territorial legislature of the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The legislative branch of the territory is bicameral, consisting of a 20-member lower House of Representatives, and an upper house Senate with nine senators. Representatives serve two-year terms and ...
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [b] (CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Carolinian: Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [11]
Although deeds and mortgages today don’t contain racially discriminatory clauses, a historical search of a property’s chain of title may uncover restrictive covenants recorded from the 1920s ...
The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands [2] (in case citations, D. N. Mar. I.) is a federal territorial court whose jurisdiction comprises the United States-affiliated Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). It was established by Act of Congress in 1977, pursuant to an international agreement between the United States ...
The geographic coverage area of this VA Medical Center extends across much of the Pacific. The catchment area extends from the Hawaiian Islands, to Guam, Saipan, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), and to American Samoa. VA will be extending care into the COFA states.
The law of the Northern Mariana Islands includes: The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, which specifies which political issues require agreement between the United States and the CNMI, and which can unilaterally be decided by the federal government. [1]
The Supreme Court was created by commonwealth law on May 1, 1989. [1] This was allowed under the terms of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, § 402(c), Act of Mar. 24, 1976, Pub. L. 94-241, 90 Stat. 263, codified as amended at 48 U.S.C. § 1801 note.