...Islands. In particular, he will be remembered for the key role he played in the passage of the historic Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in political union with the United States. Approved November 10, 1978. XVII. APPENDIX 1. Historic Sites and Monuments An Act to provide for the...

...issued Northern Marianas Identification Cards to aliens who acquired United States citizenship when the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States entered into force on November 3, 1986. These cards remain valid as evidence of United States citizenship....

...extensive status negotiations, the United States and the Marianas Political Status Commission concluded a Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States ("Covenant"). Sections 101, 1002, and 1003(c) of the Covenant provide that the Northern Mariana Islands...

...United States signed a Covenant, the purpose of which is to provide for the eventual establishment of a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in political union with the United States of America. This Covenant was subsequently approved by the Mariana Islands District Legislature and by the people...

...tentative agreement was reached between the United States and the Marianas Political Status Commission on a Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Political Union with the United States of America. The document was signed with minor modifications on Saipan on February 15, 1975. The terms of the Covenant...

...Until a judiciary for the Northern Mariana Islands District has been established in accordance with the "Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Political Union with the United States of America", the judicical authority for the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands shall remain vested in the...

...the Marianas Political Status Commission produced basic agreement by the end of the year on a draft covenant to establish a commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in political union with the United States. The negotiations with the Joint Committee on Future Status of the Congress of Micronesia with respect...

...Islands in accordance with its Covenant which would, upon termination of the Trusteeship Agreement, establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...political union with the United States of America. Laws of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, of the Mariana Islands District and its local municipalities,...

...and the United States, including, as the people of the Marianas have long requested, establishment of a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in political union with the United States with maximum internal self-government, was affirmed. A fifth session of negotiations in December 1974...

...extensive status negotiations, the United States and the Marianas Political Status Commission concluded a Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States ("Covenant"). Sections 101, 1002, and 1003(c) of the Covenant provide that the Northern Mariana Islands...