Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL (includes LC Portals: American Samoa)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

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

EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• American Samoa Governor
• American Samoa Administrative Code (American Samoa Bar Association) partial only
• American Samoa Government Listings
• American Samoa Election Office
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs - includes factsheet and the Report on the Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of the Islands

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: High Court of American Samoa (appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior)
• American Samoa Reports: Table of Cases (American Samoa Bar Association) includes links to cases
• 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

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• Historical Documents, Laws, and Deeds (U.S. Representative Eni F. H. Faleomavaega)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

LEGAL GUIDES AND REGIONAL SPECIFIC LAWS

• Multinational Collections Database: American Samoa (Law ) 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 )
• Guide: U.S. States & Territories: Legal Links (Law Legal Issues )
• 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 Materials from Asia: American Samoa (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Portals to the World: American Samoa ()
• 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)