Puka Bill’s Gift to Samoa
American Samoa to the USA is an area of 2300 km south-west of Hawaii. Like other outposts on Wednesday, including Guam and the Virgin Islands, it is signed by the Department of Interior and the USA has a governor appointed Rex H. Lee, born in an Iowa farm economist. Given its status as far as the USA Constitution for American Samoa?
In Pago Pago, on the Fourth of July, 400 pounds. Construction workers in the USA, William C. Brown, Jr., better known under the name of Puka (FAT) Bill, was arrested without a warrant threaten to pull the governor. The alleged threat was made during a private party eleven days. Heroes “incommunicado” for 48 hours, he was responsible, against American Samoa’s flat-rate citizens’ rights law “worrying” the governor Lee in “the free exercise or enjoyment of his constitutional right to life, freedom or property. ” Sentences of three years in prison, a fine of $ 1500 or both.
Visiting Professor in American Samoa, George A. Wray Washington, DC’s prestigious law firm, Rhyne and Rhyne. Fascinated, Wray was Brown’s Fall. Under the process during the past month, it raised a fundamental question: Is Samoa’s constitutional law and the rights of citizens?
How Wray read the Constitution is not “spontaneously” for all U.S. territories. For example, the Supreme Court upheld the mainland customs duties on imports of Puerto Rican in the year 1901 (Downes v. Bidwell), as the proceeds of the Constitution clauses prohibiting such barriers only between States. But in this case, Wray said the Court held that the other clauses of “fundamental individual freedoms and fundamental rights automatically with the flag.” Thus, applicable to the territories is the fifth amendment to guarantee a fair trial. And the “due process” means, among other things, that the criminal law must be sufficiently clear and concrete for people to know what it contains.
Wray was sufficient argument for Samoa Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of the Iowa’s Drake University Law School. Amazing disguised lavalava spectators, “said Morrow Samoa civil rights law null and void. Furthermore, it should approve the request Wray Judge Morrow’s arrest by the governor’s attorney Lee Brown without an option to stop (what penalty: A $ 500 fine, one year’s imprisonment or both). Says a Samoan sober, as the Court of the room: “We know now that the U.S. Constitution mean something in American Samoa.”
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