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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its…
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Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme…
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In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on…
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The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law…
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After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route…
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower…
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If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest…
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The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as…
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of…
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That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth…
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However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are…
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Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.
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Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can…
— Roseanne Barr
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable…
— Winston Churchill
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long…
— Jean Dubuffet
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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.
— Unknown Author
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state…
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is…
— John O'Donohue
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Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details…
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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