Puerto Rico's Political Future: A Divisive Issue with Many Dimensions : Report to the CongressU.S. General Accounting Office, 1981 - 144페이지 |
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109 페이지 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
91 페이지 - States ; and that after the admission of the said territory of Orleans as a state into the Union, the laws which such state may pass shall be promulgated and its records of every description shall be preserved, and its judicial and legislative written proceedings conducted in the language in which the laws and the judicial and legislative written proceedings of the United States are now published and conducted...
95 페이지 - ... the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have effectively exercised their right to self-determination; 5. Recognizes that, in the framework of their Constitution and of the compact agreed upon with the United States of America, the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have been invested with attributes of political sovereignty which clearly identify the status of self-government attained by the Puerto Rican people as that of an autonomous political entity; 6.
114 페이지 - It was established through bilateral agreement between the people of Puerto Rico and the Congress of the United States.
4 페이지 - Union since its founding, shows that the requirements have been — "(1) That the inhabitants of the proposed new State are imbued with and sympathetic toward the principles of democracy as exemplified in the American form of government...
109 페이지 - ... government from the beginning. There has not been a single cession made from the time of the Confederation up to the present day, excluding the recent treaty with Spain, which has not contained stipulations to the effect that the United States through Congress would either not disincorporate or would incorporate the ceded territory into the United States.
45 페이지 - UN resolution was presented by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP). The PSP was invited as an observer to the recent Non-Aligned Nations Conference in Algiers.
113 페이지 - Puerto Rico has thus not become a State in the federal Union like the 48 States, but it would seem to have become a State within a common and accepted meaning of the word.
114 페이지 - Undoubtedly, there are general prohibitions in the Constitution in favor of the liberty and property of the citizen which are not mere regulations as to the form and manner in which a conceded power may be exercised, but which are an absolute denial of all authority under any circumstances or conditions to do particular acts.
95 페이지 - Bureau reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination and independence...