Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session on S. 2023, a Bill to Provide for Amendments to the Compact Between the People of Puerto Rico and the United States, Together with Memorandums-of-law and Official Agency Views on a Proposed Substitute Measure, S. 2708, June 9, 1959U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 131 pages Considers S. 2023, to amend the compact between Puerto Rico and the U.S. to redefine their relationship by clarifying and strengthening Puerto Rico's self-government legislation. Also includes memorandums-of-law and official agency views of a proposed substitute bill. |
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... contracts . Contracts which the Congress of the United States commits itself to irrevocably . We have had a very sad experience of that in Puerto Rico , of a certain person that got a 999 year contract on 14 acres in the middle of San ...
... contracts . Contracts which the Congress of the United States commits itself to irrevocably . We have had a very sad experience of that in Puerto Rico , of a certain person that got a 999 year contract on 14 acres in the middle of San ...
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... contracts , may be changed only by mutual agreement . From this analysis it follows that Congress acted lawfully and within its con- stitutional and sovereign rights and powers in enacting Public Law 600 , 81st Congress , and in ...
... contracts , may be changed only by mutual agreement . From this analysis it follows that Congress acted lawfully and within its con- stitutional and sovereign rights and powers in enacting Public Law 600 , 81st Congress , and in ...
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... contracts . ( 1 ) Congress power , as sovereign , to make contracts . - Congress may make com- pacts in the exercise of its sovereign power respecting the Territories . For , just as the power to acquire and govern territory is a ...
... contracts . ( 1 ) Congress power , as sovereign , to make contracts . - Congress may make com- pacts in the exercise of its sovereign power respecting the Territories . For , just as the power to acquire and govern territory is a ...
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... contract , that such a contract was binding and that it was thereafter beyond Congress ' powers to revoke that contract , even by an attempted exercise of the identical power . The language of the Court is broad . It is equally appli ...
... contract , that such a contract was binding and that it was thereafter beyond Congress ' powers to revoke that contract , even by an attempted exercise of the identical power . The language of the Court is broad . It is equally appli ...
Page 93
... contract is also exercised on numerous occasions between the Federal Government and the States . For example , the Supreme Court has referred , as effective contracts between the States and the Federal Government , to the act of July 2 ...
... contract is also exercised on numerous occasions between the Federal Government and the States . For example , the Supreme Court has referred , as effective contracts between the States and the Federal Government , to the act of July 2 ...
Common terms and phrases
81st Congress adopted agreement American Antonio Fernós-Isern apply to Puerto April 12 article VII Articles of Permanent authority bill Chairman citizens Commissioner FERNÓS-ISERN Committee on Interior Commonwealth of Puerto Commonwealth status compact consent constitution of Puerto constitutional convention Court of Puerto delegate Department dispose duties economic election enacted essential public purposes exercise Federal Government Federal Relations Act Federal Union Foraker Act force and effect government of Puerto Governor MUÑOZ-MARÍN hereby Insular Affairs Interior and Insular island jurisdiction lands legislation ment Northwest Ordinance Organic Act parties Permanent Association political President proposed Public Law 600 Puerto Rican Federal Puerto Rico pursuant question referendum relationship repealed Resident Commissioner respect to Puerto Rican Federal Relations Rico's self-government Senator CARROLL Senator GRUENING Senator JACKSON Senator O'MAHONEY sovereignty Stat statehood Sugar Act Supreme Court tariffs territorial clause territorial power thereof tion Treasury U.S. Constitution U.S. representative U.S. Senate United Nations
Popular passages
Page 95 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Page 93 - 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.
Page 71 - 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.
Page 93 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected...
Page 68 - An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 82 - The rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens of the United States shall be respected in Puerto Rico to the same extent as though...
Page 111 - 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.
Page 81 - STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (HR 6927) to establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes...
Page 59 - All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899 (whether before or after the effective date of this Act), and not citizens, subjects, or nationals of any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 95 - ... establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory ; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...