Puerto Rico: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 856 ... S. 472 ... July 14, 1998, July 15, 1998, Opseg 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - Broj stranica: 175 |
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Amendment American citizens American citizenship ballot believe bill born in Puerto Chairman choice citizens of Puerto Citizenship Clause colonial commonwealth status compact Congress congressional Court definition of commonwealth democracy economic election English FARROW Federal Government FRANK MURKOWSKI free association going Government of Puerto gress guaranteed GUTIERREZ hearing Hispanic House independence island issue Jones Act language legislation majority ment monwealth Murkowski opportunity participate permanent plebiscite political status Popular Democratic Party prepared statement President proposed Public Law 600 Puer Puerto Rican sovereignty Puerto Rico Puerto Rico's status question referendum reject relationship RIGAU ROMERO-BARCELÓ self-government Senator Craig Senator Graham Senator THOMAS separate sovereignty SERRANO statehood status of Puerto status options statutory Territorial Clause Thank tion U.S. citizens U.S. citizenship U.S. Congress U.S. Constitution U.S. REPRESENTATIVE U.S. Senate unincorporated territory Union vote voters William Miranda Marin
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Stranica 49 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a state, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the state to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Stranica 50 - All persons born or naturalized in the United States... are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Stranica 46 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Stranica 47 - The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a state, or a municipality or a citizen.
Stranica 49 - 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 47 - When a Government enters into contract with an individual, it deposes as to the matter of the contract its constitutional authority, and exchanges the Character of Legislator for that of a moral Agent, with the same rights and obligations as an individual.
Stranica 41 - That, fully recognizing the principle of government by consent, this Act is now adopted in the nature of a compact so that the people of Puerto Rico may organize a government pursuant to a constitution of their own adoption.
Stranica 45 - Thus, in 1952, Puerto Rico ceased being a territory of the United States subject to the plenary powers of congress as provided in the Federal constitution. The authority exercised by the federal government emanated thereafter from the compact itself. Under the compact between the people of Puerto Rico and the United States, Congress cannot amend the Puerto Rico Constitution unilaterally, and the government of Puerto Rico is no longer a federal government agency exercising delegated power.
Stranica 49 - It had been said by eminent judges that no man was a citizen of the United States except as he was a citizen of one of the states composing the Union. Those, therefore, who had been born and resided always in the District of Columbia or in the territories, though within the United States, were not citizens. Whether this proposition was sound or not had never been judicially decided.
Stranica 49 - It declares that persons may be citizens of the United States without regard to their citizenship of a particular State, and it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, citizens of the United States.