Covenant of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) explained

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Timestamp
0:00 – Introduction
0:11 – Covenant explained in general terms
1:50 – Preamble summarized
3:23 – Article I
4:20 – Article II
4:48 – Article III
4:59 – Article IV
5:09 – Article V
5:33 – Article VI
5:45 – Article VII
5:54 – Article VIII
6:21 – Article IX
6:32 – Article X
6:46 – Background events leading up to the Covenant
8:34 – The Philosophy behind the Covenant Negotiations
9:26 – Mutual Consent
10:45 – Article V concerning the application of the US constitution
11:10 – Section 501(b) Provisions with exceptions to the US constitution
12:16 – Section 203 Equal representation in the upper house
13:08 – Section 501(a) Limitations on the right to jury trials
13:35 – Section 805 Restrictions on land ownership
14:20 – US Constitutional exceptions in the CNMI constitution
14:53 – Why the US agreed to mutual consent & constitutional exceptions
16:09 – Covenant approval and signing
17:24 – How you can support my channel!

References
Analysis of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 20 (1976).

Com. of Northern Mariana Islands v. Atalig, 723 F.2d 682, 686 n.8 (9th Cir. 1984)

“Hearing to Approve "The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands" Before the Subcomm. on Territorial and Insular Affairs of the House Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. 376 (1975)”

Leibowitz, A. H. (1980). The Marianas Covenant Negotiations. Fordham Int'l LJ, 4, 19.

Marianas Political Status Commission, Section by Section Analysis of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 3 (1975).

UN Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific (1964). United Nations Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific: report on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, together with the relevant resolution of the Trusteeship Council (Report No. T/1628). New York, NY: United Nations.

Wabol v. Villacrusis, 908 F.2d 411, 898 F.2d 1381 (9th Cir. 1990)

Willens, H. P., & Siemer, D. C. (1976). Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands: Constitutional Principles and Innovation in a Pacific Setting, The. Geo. LJ, 65, 1373.

Willens, H. P., & Siemer, D. C. (2001). An Honorable Accord. In An Honorable Accord. University of Hawaii Press.