Political Status of Puerto Rico: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on S. 710, S. 711, and S. 712 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 |
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... American system . Those were bitter years full of disappointment when Puerto Rico was ruled by mediocre and insensitive American governors and when our renewed outcry for self - determination fell mostly on deaf ears . This dark era ...
... American system . Those were bitter years full of disappointment when Puerto Rico was ruled by mediocre and insensitive American governors and when our renewed outcry for self - determination fell mostly on deaf ears . This dark era ...
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... American democracy in the island . However , policy- makers on the mainland were deeply distrustful of the capabilities of the Puerto Rican people so they decided that the islanders had to be educated about American institutions before ...
... American democracy in the island . However , policy- makers on the mainland were deeply distrustful of the capabilities of the Puerto Rican people so they decided that the islanders had to be educated about American institutions before ...
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... American military forces took over Puerto Rico as war booty in 1898 , Puerto Rico was already enjoying a regime of plenary self - government . We were Spanish citizens , with full representation in the Spanish parliament and with total ...
... American military forces took over Puerto Rico as war booty in 1898 , Puerto Rico was already enjoying a regime of plenary self - government . We were Spanish citizens , with full representation in the Spanish parliament and with total ...
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... American institutions before transplanting them here . And thus , a policy of Americanization was established by the U.S. for Puerto Rico that was forcefully pursued for 50 years . Americanization meant imposing the English language and ...
... American institutions before transplanting them here . And thus , a policy of Americanization was established by the U.S. for Puerto Rico that was forcefully pursued for 50 years . Americanization meant imposing the English language and ...
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... American is not the language you speak or the color of you skin . When over 100 Americans were held hostage in Iran in 1980 , one of them , a Hispanic named Jimmy Lopez , wrote in a wall of a small room where he was held in captiv- ity ...
... American is not the language you speak or the color of you skin . When over 100 Americans were held hostage in Iran in 1980 , one of them , a Hispanic named Jimmy Lopez , wrote in a wall of a small room where he was held in captiv- ity ...
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318 페이지 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
577 페이지 - In case they remain in the territory they may preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve Huch allegiance; in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside.
577 페이지 - Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds, and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce, and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners.
349 페이지 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the national Government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
301 페이지 - We may, indeed, with propriety, be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely anything that can wound the pride, or degrade the character of an independent nation, which we do not experience.
86 페이지 - He becomes a member of the society, possessing all the rights of a native citizen, and standing, in the view of the constitution, on the footing of a native. The constitution does not authorize congress to enlarge or abridge those rights. The simple power of the national legislature is to prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization, and the exercise of this power exhausts it, so far as respects the individual.
334 페이지 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba . as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our / system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
349 페이지 - The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final.
331 페이지 - The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
320 페이지 - Interference with the power of the States was no constitutional criterion of the power of Congress. If the power was not given. Congress could not exercise it; if given, they might exercise it, although it should interfere with the laws, or even the Constitution of the States.