Puerto Rico Status Plebiscite: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American & Insular Affairs of the Committee on Resources and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session ... October 17, 1995--Washington, DC.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 377 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
1993 plebiscite ACEVEDO AGOSTO American and Insular ballot benefits BERRIOS-MARTINEZ bilateral compact bilateral pact BURTON Cambio XXI Chairman citizens of Puerto colonial Committee commonwealth status CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional decolonization definition EL NUEVO DIA election Estado Libre Asociado FALEOMAVAEGA FARROW Fifth Amendment free association GALLEGLY Government of Puerto Governor Guam hearing Hector Luis Acevedo House of Representatives independence island issue leaders legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Luis mutual consent clauses non-state areas November 14 Pedro Rosselló percent permanent union political status Popular Democratic Party power of Congress President proposed Puerto Rico question referendum relationship response Rican Rico's ROMERO-BARCELÓ San Juan Section 936 sector self-determination self-government Senate sovereignty statehood statement status formula status plebiscite Territorial Clause Thank Torricelli U.S. citizens U.S. citizenship U.S. Congress U.S. Constitution U.S. REPRESENTATIVE United States Congress vote voters Washington White House
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 13 - 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...
עמוד 13 - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
עמוד 318 - The principle asserted is, that one Legislature is competent to repeal any Act which a former Legislature was competent to pass ; and that one Legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding Legislature." " The correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power.
עמוד 53 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
עמוד 175 - Secretary-General for information purposes, subject to such limitation as security and constitutional considerations may require, statistical and other information of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational conditions...
עמוד 315 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
עמוד 13 - ... to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement; c.
עמוד 171 - 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.
עמוד 318 - Slates cannot any more than a State interfere with private rights, except for legitimate governmental purposes. They are not included within the constitutional prohibition which prevents States from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts, but equally with the States they are prohibited from depriving persons or corporations of property without due process of law.
עמוד 68 - ARTICLE 3 The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the present Covenant.