Participation in the national government
The executive branch
United States: Igartua
de la Rosa v. United States, the Puerto Rico Presidential
Voting Decision from the United States Court of Appeals For the First
Circuit, October 13, 2000
The legislative branch
United States: Michel
v. Anderson, Nonvoting Delegates in the Committee of the
Whole of the U.S. House of Representatives, from the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, January 25, 1994
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Citizenship and immigration
United Kingdom: British Overseas Territories Act 2002,
on the citizenship of persons in the fourteen British overseas territories:
Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory,
British Virgin Islands,
Cayman Islands,
Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat,
Pitcairn
Islands,
St Helena
and Dependencies, South Georgia
and the
South Sandwich Islands, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri
and Dhekelia in
Cyprus, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
United States: Regulations
Governing Habitual Residence of Citizens of the Freely Associated States
of Micronesia In Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,
issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service; effective September
19, 2000.
Self-government, autonomy, and the application of
national laws
United Nations General Assembly, Declaration
on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,
United Nations Resolution 1514 (XV) (1960).
Joint Statement of the
Principles of Partnership between New Zealand and Tokelau
United States:
The Insular Cases--the
Applicability of the
United States Constitution to Territories of the United States
United States: Northern Mariana Islands: Position Paper on
Self-Government, by Special Representatives of the Governor (1986) (71 kb).
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Control of natural resources
United States: Pacific Insular Area Fisheries-- foreign fishing in the exclusive economic
zones adjacent to Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands
Trade and tariffs
United States: General Note 3(a)(iv) of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule--Importing goods into the U.S. from U.S. insular areas outside the
U.S. customs territory
United States: General Note
10 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule--Importing goods into the U.S. from the freely
associated states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
European Union: Treaty Establishing the European Community,
Trade and tariff treatment of certain non-European associated
countries and territories
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Special provisions for benefit of dependent islands
United Nations Charter, Chapter XI: Declaration
regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories
United States: Consolidation
of Grants to the U.S. Insular Areas, Section 1469a of
Title 48 of the United States Code
European Union: Treaty Establishing the European Community,
Special Recognition of Island Needs
