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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Stranica 17
... problem in the legislative process itself in which Congress either made applicable a law to Puerto Rico or made inapplicable a law where you wished the converse to happen ? Mr. FUSTER . Just a few weeks ago I was dealing in one of the ...
... problem in the legislative process itself in which Congress either made applicable a law to Puerto Rico or made inapplicable a law where you wished the converse to happen ? Mr. FUSTER . Just a few weeks ago I was dealing in one of the ...
Stranica 26
... problem of political status . The United Nations has recognized a third alternative , " free association " , as a valid solution to the status problem . See Resolution 1514 ( XV ) approved by the General Assembly of the U. N. in its ...
... problem of political status . The United Nations has recognized a third alternative , " free association " , as a valid solution to the status problem . See Resolution 1514 ( XV ) approved by the General Assembly of the U. N. in its ...
Stranica 41
... problem with American citizenship , irrespective of what some of the proponents of statehood may wish were the case . Now , of course , I know that my paper goes beyond the ten min- utes so I will be skipping from several positions . I ...
... problem with American citizenship , irrespective of what some of the proponents of statehood may wish were the case . Now , of course , I know that my paper goes beyond the ten min- utes so I will be skipping from several positions . I ...
Stranica 77
... spe- cific law be applied to Puerto Rico . The CHAIRMAN . Well , I understand that procedure that you pro- pose . But it seems to me that that procedure fixes a problem that is not a problem . We have heard the three resident 77.
... spe- cific law be applied to Puerto Rico . The CHAIRMAN . Well , I understand that procedure that you pro- pose . But it seems to me that that procedure fixes a problem that is not a problem . We have heard the three resident 77.
Stranica 78
... problem . We have heard the three resident commissioners ; Mr. Fuster said there were a number of times when he could not get the Congress to go along with what he proposed . One example he gave was on maternity leave , I believe ...
... problem . We have heard the three resident commissioners ; Mr. Fuster said there were a number of times when he could not get the Congress to go along with what he proposed . One example he gave was on maternity leave , I believe ...
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Stranica 310 - 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.
Stranica 595 - That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in said Islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands...
Stranica 341 - 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.
Stranica 645 - Nothing in the foregoing paragraphs shall be construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent states conducting themselves in compliance with the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples...
Stranica 595 - April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in said islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such as shall have elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain signed at Paris December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Stranica 480 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream — and not...
Stranica 341 - 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.
Stranica 324 - 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.
Stranica 421 - The right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of property is recognized as a fundamental right of man. The death penalty shall not exist No person shall be deprived of his liberty or property without due process of law. No person in Puerto Rico shall be denied the equal protection of the laws No laws impairing the obligation of contracts shall be enacted.
Stranica 291 - 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.