Opinion ID: 4420932
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Heading: all inhabitants of the Island of Guam on April

Text: 11, 1899, including those temporarily absent from the Island on that date and who were Spanish subjects; and DAVIS V. GUAM 11 qualified to register, and therefore to vote, in the plebiscite must be “Native Inhabitants of Guam,” defined as “those persons who became U.S. Citizens by virtue of the authority and enactment of the 1950 Organic Act of Guam and descendants of those persons.” Id. § 21001(e). Second, the 2000 Plebiscite Law retains the Commission on Decolonization but amends portions of the 1997 Plebiscite Law to replace all references to “Chamorro” with “Native Inhabitants of Guam.” 1 Guam Code Ann. §§ 2101– 02, 2104–05, 2110. As revised, the law establishing a new plebiscite provides: The general purpose of the Commission on Decolonization shall be to ascertain the intent of the Native Inhabitants of Guam as to their future political relationship with the United States of America. Once the intent of the Native Inhabitants of Guam is ascertained, the Commission shall promptly transmit that desire to the President and the Congress of