...in the Paris Treaty, and Puerto Rico therefore became American territory. By Art. 9 of the Treaty: The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. 4. Art. 5. 5. Arts....

...citizenship in Puerto Rico is not really US citizenship at all. The Treaty of Paris (1898) stipulates that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress."4 To the present, however,...

...Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War, did not contain similar provisions. It only stated that "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."20 This broad concession...

...Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified...

...Spanish-American War (but not the ensuing unrecognized Philippine-American War) empowered Congress to determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the Philippines. The inhabitants of the territories were guaranteed ex proprio vigore (by its own force)...

...of Peace between the United States and Spain at Paris on December 10, 1898, providing therein that "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," we, the undersigned...