Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the governor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior.
The faʻa Sāmoa is the language and customs, and the fa'amatai the protocols of the fono (council) and the chiefly system.
The fa'amatai and the fono take place at all levels of the Samoan body politic, from the family, to the village, to the region, to national matters.
As an unincorporated territory, the Ratification Act of 1929 vested all civil, judicial, and military powers in the president, who in turn delegated authority to the secretary of the interior in Executive Order 10264.