 | Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall - 2001 - 448 páginas
...in 1901. However, in that case, Justice Brown, writing for the majority, did describe Puerto Rico as "a territory appurtenant and belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clauses of the Constitution." Downes, 182 US at 287 (emphasis added). It was Justice... | |
 | Allan Punzalan Isaac - 2006 - 248 páginas
...Yet courts rely on the imaginative erasure of the phrase "within the revenue clause," leaving only "Puerto Rico is a territory appurtenant and belonging...United States, but not a part of the United States." This legal magic of the post-Bidwell courts expands the strictly worded decision to interpret political... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1903 - 658 páginas
...Supreme Court; but in Downes v. Bidwell (183 US. 244) it 'was determined " that the island of Porto Rico is a territory appurtenant and belonging to the...United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clauses of the Constitution.'' Such being the status of the island of Porto Rico,... | |
 | 162 páginas
...of the most significant of the Insular Cases, the Court concluded that Puerto Rico should be deemed "a territory appurtenant and belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States," for "the power to acquire territory by treaty implies, not only the power to govern such territory,... | |
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We are therefore of opinion that the Island of Porto Rico is a territory appurtenant and belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clauses of the Constitution... 
