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THE Institute of Law, Policy, Research and Human Rights Limited has petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking an interpretation on whether one can contest as an independent presidential candidate in an election and whether any political party member can petition a presidential election result, among others. According to a petition filed in the Constitutional Court, the institute is seeking the interpretation of Articles 74, 81 (2) (3) (10), 100, 103 (l), 105, 116 and 117 of the Constitution a...

Regarding Article 12 IN his 1966 book, “A Reporter in Micronesia,” E.J. Kahn Jr. wrote that the U.S. wanted to “protect” the people of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands against the possibility of losing their most permanent and precious asset — their land. (Administered by the U.S., the TT comprised the NMI, the Marshalls, Palau and what is now known as the FSM — Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap). Kahn said the U.S. decreed from the start that non-Micronesian c...