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#Territories

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Departments (1)
Office of Insular Affairs
The Interior Department office that coordinates federal policy for four U.S. territories and the freely associated states of the Pacific
Principles (1)
Home Rule
The authority of cities and counties to govern their own local affairs, granted by state constitutions and laws, as opposed to Dillon's Rule, and its special form in Washington, D.C.
Documents & Cases (2)
Article IV: The States
The article that governs relations among the states and between the states and the national government, from full faith and credit to new states and territories
The Twenty-third Amendment
The 1961 amendment giving the District of Columbia electors in presidential elections
States & Local (8)
American Samoa
The only U.S. territory whose people are U.S. nationals rather than citizens at birth, a South Pacific territory that preserves traditional Samoan land and chiefly systems
Guam
An organized U.S. territory in the western Pacific, home to about 170,000 American citizens and major U.S. military bases
Northern Mariana Islands
A Pacific commonwealth of about 47,000 people that chose union with the United States by covenant in 1975, after decades as a UN trust territory
Puerto Rico
The largest U.S. territory, a self-governing commonwealth of about 3.2 million American citizens without voting representation in Congress or electoral votes
The District of Columbia
The federal capital district, governed by its own elected officials under the ultimate authority of Congress, with no voting representation in Congress
The Insular Cases
A series of Supreme Court decisions beginning in 1901 that created the doctrine of unincorporated territories, where the Constitution applies only in part
U.S. Territories
The five inhabited territories and several uninhabited islands under U.S. sovereignty, home to about 3.6 million people with limited representation in Washington
U.S. Virgin Islands
A Caribbean territory of about 87,000 American citizens, purchased from Denmark in 1917, with its own elected governor and legislature
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