Constitution Amendment Act (No. 1) 2017 (Samoa), the Independent State of Samoa's Parliament's own 2017 legislative act, inserted the Christian nation declaration into Article 1 of the Constitution of Samoa, passed by an effectively unanimous vote. Its strength is that it is the official primary legal record itself, held in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's FAOLEX legal database. Its limit is that it is the statute's own text, not an independent legal or religious studies analysis of its effect, which the companion Law Library of Congress note supplies.
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Citation
AuthorIndependent State of Samoa, Parliament
PublisherGovernment of Samoa (text held by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's FAOLEX legal database)
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/sam176209.pdf
Source Typelegal
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the primary legislative text itself, held in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's FAOLEX legal database, the strongest available witness to what the statute says. NotesThe official legislative act inserting the Christian-nation declaration into Article 1 of the Constitution of Samoa, passed by an effectively unanimous vote in 2017. Official primary legal record.
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