Johnston Atoll with its Hawaiian name Kalama is about 825 miles southwest of Hawaii in the Central Pacific. The ...

Ambiguity over the island’s status was fueled by Supreme Court cases [PDF] that declared it an unincorporated territory with no clear path to statehood. In the wake of World War II and a global ...

Samoa and the Marianas each have 50,000 or so. The U.S. also has unincorporated territories, which are largely uninhabited, in the Pacific and Atlantic, including some of World War II fame such as ...

Bidwell, the most prominent of the Insular Cases, held that the Uniformity Clause of the U.S. Constitution was not “applicable” in so-called “unincorporated” territories. The Uniformity ...

The political status of Puerto Rico has been a contentious topic since the island became an unincorporated territory of the United States in 1901. Under its current status, Puerto Rico is a U.S ...