International Role of the U.S. Insular Areas: Oversight Hearing Before Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, July 17, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 398 páginas |
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administration American Samoa approved authority BLAZ Caribbean Basin Chairman citizenship Committee on Interior Commonwealth of Puerto compact Congressional Constitution consultation Covenant cultural Department Dominican Republic economic development El Nuevo Dia exemption Federal Government foreign affairs free association FUSTER Government of Puerto Governor HERNÁNDEZ Guam hearings Hernández-Colón Insular Affairs insular areas interests Interior and Insular international activities international agreement international role investment issue Japan July 17 Kozak Lacovara Latin America legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LUGO MANSUR matters ment Micronesia negotiations Northern Mariana Islands Pacific participation political status President problems Puerto Rico question region relationship Rican Rico's role of Puerto San Juan Star Secretary section 936 Senate sovereignty statehood statement Supreme Court territorial clause territories and commonwealths territory or commonwealth Thank tion trade treaty U.S. Congress U.S. foreign policy U.S. Government U.S. State Department U.S. territories United Nations Virgin Islands
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Página 33 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial, and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct ; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Página 75 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 78 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation . . .," but also that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Página 69 - Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America...
Página 178 - 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 186 - Nor need we enquire whether similar considerations enter into the review of statutes directed at particular religious or national or racial minorities . . . whether prejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial inquiry.
Página 70 - Islands on international matters direcdy affecting the Northern Mariana Islands and will provide opportunities for the effective presentation of such views to no less extent than such opportunities are provided to any other territory or possession under comparable circumstances.
Página 183 - Said district court shall have jurisdiction of all controversies where all of the parties on either side of the controversy aer citizens or subjects of a foreign State or States, or citizens of a State, Territory or District of the United States...
Página 33 - SECTION 1. The legislative power of the State shall be vested in a legislature, which shall consist of two houses, a senate and a house of representatives. Such power shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with this constitution or the Constitution of the United States.
Página 32 - The legislative power of Guam shall extend to all subjects of legislation of local application not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the laws of the United States applicable to Guam.