[PDF] The Supreme Court And Puerto Rico eBook

Author : Juan R. Torruella
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
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ISBN : 9780847730315

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"An interdisciplinary analysis of the co-called ""insular cases,"" involving citizens residing in non-incorporated territories who enjoy fewer constitutional rights than mainland citizens."

Author : Christina Duffy Burnett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2001-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822381168

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In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship. More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States’ unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these “marginal” regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large. This book does more than simply fill a glaring omission in the study of race, cultural identity, and the Constitution; it also makes a crucial contribution to the study of American federalism, serves as a foundation for substantive debate on Puerto Rico’s status, and meets an urgent need for dialogue on territorial status between the mainlandd and the territories. Contributors. José Julián Álvarez González, Roberto Aponte Toro, Christina Duffy Burnett, José A. Cabranes, Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Gerald L. Neuman, Angel R. Oquendo, Juan Perea, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Rogers M. Smith, E. Robert Statham Jr., Brook Thomas, Richard Thornburgh, Juan R. Torruella, José Trías Monge, Mark Tushnet, Mark Weiner

Author : Christina Duffy Burnett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2001-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822326984

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DIVA number of leading legal scholars address different aspects of the American experience of territorial government in areas unincorporated for reasons of geography and the cultural and racial makeup of their peoples with special emphasis on the status of P/div

Author : Sam Erman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415490

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Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.