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agricultural amendment American amount approved ASPINALL association authority average become believe better bill Chairman citizens committee Commonwealth of Puerto compact Congress consider Constitution continue cost course Court Department economic effect election English established fact farms Federal FERNÓS-ISERN future give going Governor hearings housing important income increase independence industry interest island labor land legislation limited matter mean ment million municipal nature O'BRIEN operation organization Party percent persons plebiscite political Ponce position possible POWELL present President problem production proposed Puerto Rico question reason received referred Relations Representatives respect Rican Senator social statehood statement status sugar territory Thank tion ULLMAN understand Union United University vote wages WESTLAND workers
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Página 780 - 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.
Página 769 - 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...
Página 336 - 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 are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories, and, to this...
Página 542 - 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.
Página 283 - 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 citi/en.
Página 316 - War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace...
Página 10 - An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1917, as amended, shall be known and designated as "Puerto Rico.
Página 7 - In Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States...
Página 239 - 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.
Página 615 - Lumber and wood products Furniture and fixtures Stone, clay, and glass products Primary metal industries Fabricated metal products Machinery, except electrical Electrical equipment and supplies.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Puerto Rico--1959 |
| Autor | United States. Congress. House. Special Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. 260: |
| Publicação | 1960 |
| Número de páginas | 815 páginas |
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