Government of the Northern Mariana Islands

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public authority territorial government

The Government of the Northern Mariana Islands is the territorial administration of this U.S. commonwealth in the western Pacific, overseeing local executive, legislative, and judicial functions under a political union with the United States.

Aliases (7)

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	public authority → territorial government →
capital	Saipan →
constitutionalDocument	Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands →
country	Northern Mariana Islands →
currency	United States dollar →
deputyHeadOfGovernmentTitle	Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands →
establishedAsCommonwealthBy	Covenant with the United States →
executivePowerExercisedBy	Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands →
governmentType	presidential representative democratic commonwealth →
hasCitizenshipStatus	U.S. citizenship for eligible residents →
hasDepartment	Department of Education of the Northern Mariana Islands → Department of Finance of the Northern Mariana Islands → Department of Public Health of the Northern Mariana Islands → Department of Public Safety of the Northern Mariana Islands → Department of Public Works of the Northern Mariana Islands →
hasExecutiveBranch	Executive branch of the Northern Mariana Islands →
hasJudicialBranch	Judiciary of the Northern Mariana Islands →
hasLegislativeBranch	Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature →
hasOfficialLanguage	Carolinian → Chamorro → English →
hasRepresentation	non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives →
headOfGovernmentTitle	Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands →
highestCourtForFederalMatters	United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit →
judicialBody	Commonwealth Superior Court of the Northern Mariana Islands → Commonwealth Supreme Court of the Northern Mariana Islands →
legalSystem	United States-style common law system →
legislatureName	Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature →
legislatureType	bicameral legislature →
locatedIn	Northern Mariana Islands → western Pacific Ocean →
lowerHouse	Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives →
operatesUnder	Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America →
partOf	United States insular area governance system →
politicalStatus	commonwealth in political union with the United States →
responsibleFor	local executive functions → local judicial functions → local legislative functions →
seatOfGovernment	Saipan →
sharesDefenseResponsibilityWith	United States government →
sharesForeignAffairsResponsibilityWith	United States government →
sovereignState	United States of America →
subjectTo	United States federal law →
unionWith	United States of America →
upperHouse	Northern Mariana Islands Senate →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Asuncion ("Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands") → Sarigan ("Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands") →	governingBody
Anatahan ("Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands government") →	governedBy
Government of the Northern Mariana Islands ("Executive branch of the Northern Mariana Islands") →	hasExecutiveBranch
Chamorro Language Commission (Northern Mariana Islands) ("government of the Northern Mariana Islands") →	isPartOf
Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("Commonwealth government of the Northern Mariana Islands") →	limitsPowerOf
Pagan ("Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands authorities") →	monitoredBy
Anatahan ("Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands emergency management authorities") →	monitoringAgency
Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature ("Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands") →	partOf
ChST →	usedBy