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 337 - The tax is uniform when it operates with the same force and effect in every place where the subject of it is found.
Stranica 191 - That the statutory laws of the United States not locally inapplicable, except as hereinbefore or hereinafter otherwise provided, shall have the same force and effect in Puerto Rico as in the United States...
Stranica 327 - The plain deduction from this case is that when a new State is admitted into the Union, it is so admitted with all of the powers of sovereignty and jurisdiction which pertain to the original States, and that such powers may not be constitutionally diminished, impaired or shorn away by any conditions, compacts or stipulations embraced in the act under which the new State came into the Union, which would not be valid and effectual if the subject of congressional legislation after admission.
Stranica 113 - Jr., and I am here today in my capacity as president of the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, an organization representing the large sewerage agencies throughout the United States.
Stranica 195 - A rigid law of deference to interpretations of Puerto Rico law by Puerto Rico courts is particularly appropriate given the unique cultural and legal history of Puerto Rico.
Stranica 365 - The State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Stranica 348 - The legislature shall provide for the training of teachers in the normal schools or otherwise so that they may become proficient in both the English and Spanish languages, to qualify them to teach Spanish-speaking pupils and students in the public schools and educational institutions of the State; and shall provide proper means and methods to facilitate the teaching of the English language and other branches of learning to such pupils and students.
Stranica 222 - Without objection, the committee will stand in recess subject to call of the Chair. (Whereupon, at...
Stranica 88 - Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, is 5 amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 6 "(46) Under Secretary of Consumer Affairs.
Stranica 184 - Rico to accelerate their economic and social development and attain maximum cultural and political autonomy within permanent union with the United States based on the irreversible bond of American citizenship, a common defense, a common market and a common currency.