Samoa: Constitutional Amendment Makes Christianity the National Religion, a 2017 Global Legal Monitor note by Law Library of Congress staff, is an official United States government legal research note explaining the amendment's text, its move from preamble to operative Article 1, and the prior constitutional language it replaced. Its strength is that it is an official government record analyzing the amendment, supplementing the act itself for the surrounding legal context. Its limit is that it shares its author byline and its 2017 year with an entirely unrelated Global Legal Monitor note on Norway's own church and state separation by the same prolific institutional office, a pairing this pass inspected individually and confirmed is not a duplicate: the two notes cover different countries and different legal changes.
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Reliability tier 1: an official United States government legal research note from the Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor, an institutional primary source for the legislative and constitutional context it explains. NotesUS Library of Congress official legal-research note explaining the 2017 amendment's text, its move from preamble to operative Article 1, and the prior constitutional language it replaced. Official government record analyzing the amendment; supplements the act itself (catalogued separately) for the surrounding legal context.
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AuthorLaw Library of Congress staff
PublisherLibrary of Congress, Global Legal Monitor
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2017-06-14/samoa-constitutional-amendment-makes-christianity-the-national-religion/
Source TypeGovernment agency
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