What is a type of territory under us laws thet has its own constitution?

Answer 1

U.S. States, (e.g., Florida) have their own Constitutions. Many of their provisions mirror those in the U.S. Constitution, and there are other provisions of particular interest and important to each State in the Constitution of each. This is because in U.S. federalism there are dual sovereigns. State sovereignty arose from the assurance in the U.S. Constitution of a republican form of government in and for each State, and also from Amendment X, which reserves much residual politico-legal power to the States.

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa all have local governments, and thus have some type of local constitutions. And, as federal law applies there, the U.S. Constitution applies, although sometimes to differing extents than as to U.S. States, as set forth in federal statute and the pertinent judicial decisions of the federal courts.