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In the United States, each state has its own written constitution.
The Covenant Party was a political party in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands advocating governmental and financial reform. In the legislative elections of 2003, the Covenant Party won nine of eighteen seats. In the 2005 elections, the Covenant Party increased its position as one of the strongest parties in the Commonwealth when Benigno R. Fitial, the party's gubernatorial candidate, won the election. The Covenant Party won seven of eighteen seats in the commonwealth's House of Representatives and three of nine seats in its Senate. In the Commonwealth Legislature 2007 elections, the Covenant Party won only four of twenty seats in the House of Representatives.
Benjamin Taisacan Manglona was a politician and civil engineer in the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). He is the CNMI's longest serving elected official having served as a congressman, senator, and former mayor of Rota. Manglona served as the third Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 1990 to 1994 and as Mayor of Rota from 1998 to 2006.
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Vicente T. Camacho was a Northern Mariana Islands politician, public servant and businessman. Camacho was a member of the Marianas Political Status Commission from 1972 until 1976. The Commission negotiated the 1975 Commonwealth Covenant, which established the political union between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States. Camacho, who was a signatory of the Covenant, has been called one of the "founding fathers" of the Commonwealth Covenant and the present government of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Edward D.L.G. Pangelinan was a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands who served as the Resident Representative from the Northern Mariana Islands to the United States House of Representatives from 1978 – 1984. He also served as the Chairman of the Marianas Political Status Commission which established the present political union between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States. In 1983, he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. He lost reelection to Froilan Tenorio in the 1984 general election. He later became a lobbyist for the Northern Mariana Islands.