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	Incorporated territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An incorporated territory of the United States is a specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States, over which the United States Congress has determined that the United States Constitution is to be applied to the territory's inhabitants in its entirety (e.
		The distinction between unincorporated and incorporated territories did not arise until the 20th century, following the acquisition by the United States of possessions arising from the Spanish-American War, including the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
		The distinction between incorporated and unincorporated territories was clarified in the 1937 United States Supreme Court case People of Puerto Rico v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unincorporated_territory (699 words)

	GUILLERMO MOSCOSO, "INCORPORATION--TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR P.R." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was held that all rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution applied to incorporated territories, and that in the case of unincorporated territories, only fundamental rights, as distinguished from formal or procedural rights, apply.
		Incorporated territories are on the road to statehood after going through the experience of democratic self-government.
		Unincorporated territories are not considered to be on the way to statehood.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/1997-98misc/moscoso-19980806.shtml (1012 words)

	Incorporated territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An incorporated territory of the United States a term that applies to specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States over which the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of the United States Constitution as it applies to the several U.S. states.
		The distinction between incorporated and unincorporated territory was made distinct in the 1937 United States Supreme Court case People of Puerto Rico v.
		Palmyra Atoll is the only current incorporated territory of the U.S., which are territories over which the United States Congress has determined that the full corpus of the United States Constitution applies.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/in/incorporated_territory.html (586 words)

	U.S. Justice: Residents Of"Commonwealth"Can Vote For President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This means that instead of enabling citizens of these territories with residence history in States to vote for federal officials in States, the law provides for citizens from these territories who live overseas to vote in the four territories.
		The four territories -- American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands in addition to Puerto Rico -- each elect a federal official: a resident commissioner in the U.S. in the case of Puerto Rico and a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives in the case of each of the three other territories.
		The NMI’s territorial government is encouraging residents with origins in the States to vote by absentee ballot from a State and is obtaining absentee ballot request forms for the residents.
	virtualboricua.org /Docs/pr_herald09.htm (687 words)

	Section 72-422 Petition to remain unincorporated--unin
		An unincorporated area proposal which has been disapproved by the commission and which is resubmitted with changes to the commission shall be subject to the public hearing requirement of this section, unless the commission determines that a public hearing on the resubmitted proposal is not necessary to achieve the objectives of this section.
		If the proposal is approved by the voters then the area shall be an established unincorporated area and shall remain unincorporated territory for a period of five years from the date of the vote and shall not be subject to any boundary change pursuant to sections 72.400 to 72.420.
		After approval by the voters of an unincorporated area proposal, no boundary change affecting any part of such area shall be proposed to the commission until expiration of the area's status as an established unincorporated area, but map plans affecting the area may be filed during the planning period pursuant to section 72.423.
	www.moga.state.mo.us /statutes/C000-099/0720000422.HTM (656 words)

	Incorporated territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An incorporated territory of the United States a term that applies to specific under the jurisdiction of the United States which the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of United States Constitution as it applies to the several U.S. states.
		Most of the historic territories of the States including all the ones that eventually U.S. states were incorporated organized territories that is incorporated territories for Congress established a local civil government.
		The between unincorporated and incorporated territories did not until the 20th century following the acquisition by the United of possessions arising from the Spanish-American War including the Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico.
	www.freeglossary.com /Unincorporated_territory (759 words)

	No. 99-475: Torres v. Sablan - Motion to Affirm
		The CNMI is an unincorporated territory that exists in a special relationship with the United States; it is neither a State nor an independent nation, but a self-governing commonwealth in union with and under the sovereignty of the United States.
		As the district court explained, the Insular Cases distinguish "unincorporated" territories, which are not destined for statehood, from "incorporated" territories, which are so destined.
		This Court has long distinguished between "incorporated" territories, such as Alaska (before its admission to the Union), that are "destined for statehood from the time of acquisition," and "unincorporated" territories, such as Guam, that are not.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1999/0responses/99-0475.resp.html (3054 words)

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		The United States had been acquiring territory for quite a while, and the federal government been governing these territories in a “colonial” manner from the start, if by that one means governing people who are denied representation, and subjecting them to a different legal status than that of other citizens.
		In contrast, the entire Constitution applies to incorporated territories.” As I argue in the longer version of this paper, this interpretation of the Insular Cases is incorrect.
		In fact, in both incorporated and unincorporated territories, certain constitutional provisions apply, and others do not. As Justice White put it in his concurrence in Downes, the Constitution is always “operative,” and the question is whether a particular provision applies in a particular circumstance.
	www.utexas.edu /law/conferences/lapurchase/Papers/CBurnett.doc (3442 words)

	US Territories and Global Relations
		The territories that comprise the 48 contiguous states today were not completely assimilated until 1912, when the Arizona Territory became the 48th state to be admitted to the union.
		The Territory consisted of the current states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota and was governed by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance.
		Unincorporated territories are similar to American Indian reservations in that those with sufficient populations are self-governing, with their administrative basis established by congressional legislation under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.
	www.geog.nau.edu /courses/alew/ggr346/text/chapters/ch13.html (4878 words)

	Territories & Commonwealths of the United States
		The territories of Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are the principal overseas dependencies of the United States.
		Should a U.S. citizen resident in one of the territories or commonwealths relocate to a State of the United States, he or she will have all the rights that are enjoyed by any other U.S. citizen residing in that State, including the right to vote for State and national officials.
		The right to self-government vouchsafed to the territories and commonwealths should thus be at least as extensive as that afforded the States, and perhaps more extensive, since the States have a much greater role in the national political process.
	www.macmeekin.com /Library/terr+commonw2.htm (5660 words)

	Encyclopedia: Insular area
		An incorporated territory of the United States is a specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States, over which the United States Congress has determined that the United States Constitution is to be applied in its entirety, in the same manner as it applies to the individual U.S...
		Several islands in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea are considered insular areas of the United States: Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean Sea is a tropical body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.
		Insular areas of the United States The myriad political divisions of the United States include (but are not limited to) states, territories, counties, townships, cities, the federal district, possessions and insular areas, embassies and consulates, Indian reservations, military installations, conservation districts and non-municipal special-purpose districts like public authorities, school districts and utilities districts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Insular-area (2943 words)

	Incorporated territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most of the historic territories of the United States, including all the ones that eventually became U.S. states, were incorporated organized territoryorganized territories, that is, incorporated territories for which Congress established a local civil government.
		Gibson County was once a wilderness situated in the Northwest Territory which, in 1784, was ceded to the United States of America by Virginia.
		Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, the territory's land claim group, and the government of Nunavut proposed a ten-year plan to build more housing in the territory last September.
	www.infothis.com /find/Incorporated_territory (876 words)

	Section 72-420 Consolidation of multiple municipalitie
		The costs of an election held under this section shall be assessed proportionately to each municipality; however, when a voting jurisdiction is composed of unincorporated territory or territories, all costs of the election in such voting jurisdictions shall be paid proportionally by each municipality in the proposed consolidation.
		The question shall be submitted separately, but on the same date, to each municipality and unincorporated area described in the petition or ordinances filed pursuant to subsections 2 to 5 of this section.
		If the voters of any municipality or unincorporated area vote against such proposal, the consolidation shall not take effect, even if the voters of all other municipalities and unincorporated areas vote in favor of the proposal.
	www.moga.state.mo.us /statutes/C000-099/0720000420.HTM (536 words)

	US Possessions & Territories - Immigration Issues
		But citizens of US Territories and Possessions may satisfy the entire period of physical presence and continuous residence by counting the period that they lived in the territory or possession.
		Unincorporated Territories: A territory in which only fundamental rights of the US Constitution are guaranteed.
		Territory is a general term for a region under the general authority of the United States, but with its own local laws.
	www.usvisa-law.com /us.htm (402 words)

	The North American League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Unincorporated Territories are officially controlled by the Extraterritorial Lands Bureau (which largely explains the high level of internal autonomy in the Territories).
		Nunavik was until 2003 a province-like territory in the far north of the NAL, opposite the Kalaallit Nunaat.
		The newly reconstituted provinces will include all reconquered territory; though the NAL is negotiating with the RTC to alter the boundary somewhat, so that certain major roadand railways that are primarily within American territory may remain intact.
	www.geocities.com /ill_bethisad/nal_slc.htm (5007 words)

	US-Puerto Rico Status Act - Washington, D.C. Hearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unincorporated status with internal self-government under a local constitution, including the ''commonwealth'' structure of local self-government, is the status which occupies the next lower position in the scheme of political union under the constitution.
		While residents of incorporated and unincorporated territories and possessions can enjoy many of the blessings of American citizenship to the extent Congress determines, including economic benefits and security through various degrees of political union with the United States, only statehood confers a condition of permanent and constitutionally guaranteed equal citizenship and full self-government.
		The notion of a formal and legally binding ''bilateralism'' between the Congress and an unincorporated territory with the framework of the federal constitution is untenable.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/resources/hii40445.000/hii40445_0.HTM (17580 words)

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		Each of these territories has a unique relationship with the United States, borne of their individual histories and the pathways by which they became associated with the United States.
		To be an unincorporated territory is to belong to but remain separate from the United States.
		Statham differentiates between the status of territories acquired via the Spanish-American War and previously acquired territories on the basis of the rationales for those acquisition: acquisition for increased power versus acquisition for mere growth.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/burnmarsh.htm (2243 words)

	Official Name and Status History of the several States and U.S. Territories, an Explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But, all in all, the distinction was something of a loose one- if a Territory did not have self-government, it was unorganized: if it did, it was organized; and a Territory had to first be organized to ever hope to eventually achieve Statehood.
		Two territories- which would otherwise be unincorporated Territories (and, in fact, can still be considered "unincorporated Territories" for purposes of the discussion in the previous section of this piece)- have achieved a kind of "quasi-Independence" as associated "Commonwealths".
		Unlike their sister unincorporated Territories, which clearly are dependencies of the United States, these two are somewhere in that gray area between a Territory and an Independent Nation: in effect, they are legally Nation-States without the Independence recognized by International Law.
	www.thegreenpapers.com /slg/explanation-statehood.phtml (1336 words)

	Northpinellas: Some fear effects of border plan
		CLEARWATER -- The map is supposed to protect residents of unincorporated Pinellas from land-hungry cities eager to annex.
		Kalunian and about a half-dozen other residents of unincorporated Pinellas County told the council that the proposed map made it seem as if their property had to be annexed into a city.
		The council, whose staff created the map, assured residents that the lines on the map are meant to keep cities from arguing over unincorporated territories, not force those territories to be annexed.
	www.sptimes.com /News/051800/news_pf/NorthPinellas/Some_fear_effects_of_.shtml (584 words)

	Political Types
		This is the current generic term to refer to any commonwealth, freely associated state, possession or territory or Territory and from July 18, 1947, until October 1, 1994, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
		Equivalent to Territory, a United States insular area, of which only one territory exists currently, Palmyra Atoll, in which the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of the United States Constitution as it applies in the several States.
		An unincorporated United States insular area, of which there are currently thirteen, three in the Caribbean (Navassa Island, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands) and ten in the Pacific (American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, the Northern Mariana Islands and Wake Atoll).
	www.doi.gov /oia/Islandpages/political_types.htm (553 words)

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		While the citizens of the fifty states are granted citizenship by the U.S. Constitution,[11] the citizenship of the Puerto Rican people was statutorily established by the Jones Act of 1917,[12] based on birth in an unincorporated territory.
		The territorial status of Puerto Rico coupled with the statutory grant of citizenship has served to subordinate Puerto Rican residents as compared to the citizens of the fifty states.
		Justice White opined that the scope of constitutional protection given to the inhabitants of the newly acquired territories depended on "the situation of the territory and its realities to the United States."[167] Under this approach, Congress did not have to extend the Constitution, but it could extend the United States.
	www.law.fsu.edu /journals/lawreview/frames/261/romatxt.html (10504 words)

	Political divisions of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The power of Congress over territorial divisions that are not part one of the states is exclusive and universal.
		Once the territory becomes a state of the Union, the state must consent to any changes pertaining to the jurisdiction of that state.
		All former territories in the contiguous U.S. are now states; many overseas unincorporated territories, briefly held, are now independent states — Cuba and the Philippines being two examples.
	www.infothis.com /find/Political_divisions_of_the_United_States (1842 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		Benton County is proposing to designate zones for unincorporated areas of the county.
		The goal of the zoning-ordinance proposal is to protect Benton County landowners by establishing zoning districts with regulations and definite permitted land uses.
		Benton County is the first county in the state to consider zoning its unincorporated territories.
	www.nwanews.com /story.php?paper=bcdr§ion=News&storyid=20446 (348 words)

	Kenora District Services Board
		A committee was formed by Kenora District municipal and unincorporated area leaders whose mandate was to prepare a proposal for a DSSAB that would provide the services mandated under the DSSAB Act.
		The service area of the Kenora District Services Board covers a territory of some 207,000 square miles and is the largest geographic area in the Province in which to provide District services to a sparse population.
		The original Board consisted of fifteen (15) members, one (1) for each incorporated municipality and four (4) for the unincorporated territories.
	www.kdsb.on.ca /history.htm (462 words)

	Self-Determination, Civil Rights and the Future of Puerto Rico
		In its pertinent section it states: "the civil rights and the political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded to the U.S. shall be determined by Congress".
		The Insular Cases, as commonly referred to collectively, are a series of Supreme Court cases decided from 1901 to 1922, that in conjunction, established and refined the doctrine of incorporated versus unincorporated territories.
		The 23rd Amendment granted the Presidential vote to citizens of the District of Columbia in 1961 (in a "non-state" territory).
	www.state.gov /s/p/of/proc/tr/11083.htm (5056 words)

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