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Hearings United States. Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Presidential Vote for Puerto Rico Visualização integral - 1971 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
ACLU advisory groups Aguas Buenas ahora ALVARADO amendment American citizens años áreas Asamblea asociación believe CABASSA CAMACHO Carlos Lozada Chairman SCRIBNER ciudadanía ciudadanos Comité Commission Commonwealth Congress Congressman SAYLOR Constitution cree creo cultural debe decir derecho DESCARTES el Gobernador el voto presidencial elections electoral entonces estadidad Estado Libre Asociado Estados Unidos esto FÁBREGAS favor federal Ferré formula Gobernador gobierno GONZÁLEZ Governor of Puerto hecho HERNÁNDEZ COLÓN hoc committees incorporated territory issue Legislative mandate ment Muñoz Marín opinion país participación participation Partido Popular persons Plebiscite poder política political status Popular Democratic Party Popular Party pregunta presidential vote problem proceso Prof proposed pueblo de Puerto Puerto Rico puertorriqueños question referendum REICHARD relaciones Ricans right to vote SÁNCHEZ VILELLA SANTIAGO VILLALONGA Senate señor sería statehood Supreme Court taxes territory tion TORRES TRILLA United Vice-Chairman Picó Vicepresidente Picó vote for President voto presidencial
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Página 45 - Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2 The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Página 42 - A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by...
Página 640 - A Non-Self-Governing Territory can be said to have reached a full measure of self-government by : (a) Emergence as a sovereign independent State; (b) Free association with an independent State; or (c) Integration with an independent State.
Página 42 - The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the...
Página 427 - It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined.
Página 74 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to ... freedom of worship . . . and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote ; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Página 248 - Provided, That all laws of the United States for the protection and improvement of the navigable waters of the United States and the preservation of the interests of navigation and commerce, except so far as the same may be locally inapplicable, shall apply to said island and waters and to its adjacent islands and waters...
Página 467 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Página 421 - Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories...
Página 387 - The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person: (3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States...