In it’s preamble the constitution of Marshall Islands does embrace the idea of “individual idealism”. This does reflect the founders of the constitution acknowledgement of the product of thought and intellect.

By way of plebiscite, the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands voted for free association with the United States by approval of a Compact of Free Association between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United States of America. The effective date of the Compact of Free Association was October 21, 1986. The Republic of Marshall Islands gained its political independence on May 30 th , 1986.

By referendum, the Marshall Islands voted for establishment of a constitutional government based upon a constitution adopted by the Marshall Islands Constitutional Convention on December 21, 1978. Thus was ushered in the beginning of a new era in political independence for the newly created Republic of the Marshall Islands.

During the age of exploration, in the sixteenth century, Spanish explorers laid claim to the Marshall Islands. Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain sold the Marshall Islands to Imperial Germany. Early in World War I, Japan captured the Marshall Islands from Germany. And in 1920. The League of Nations gave Japan a Mandate to administer the Marshall Islands. Japan administered the Marshall Islands until the outbreak of the Second World War when the United States captured the Marshall Islands from Japan. After the end of the War, the United Nations and the United States Congress approved a Trusteeship Agreement creating the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (incorporating the Marshall Islands) in 1947, entrusting the Micronesian Islands previously administered by the Japanese under the 1920 Mandate to the United States as Trustee. Under the 1947 Trusteeship Agreement, the United States assumed certain obligations, the most significant of which was to foster the development of such political institutions as are suited to the trust territory and [to] promote the development of the inhabitants of the trust territory toward self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of the trust territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned.