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These two documents precede the Insular Cases and set a precedent on the status of the United States' new territories prior to the Supreme Court's rulings. In addition to the Treaty of Paris and the Foraker Act, the Citizenship Clause found within the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution informed the
The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the Supreme Court in 1901 (the first six opinions in 182 U.S., at pages 1–397, all authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, along with various concurring and dissenting opinions by other Justices), about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War, such as the ...
Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957), was a 6–2 landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that United States citizen civilians outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States cannot be tried by a United States military tribunal, but instead retain the protections guaranteed by the United States Constitution, in this case, trial by jury.
The resolution, introduced in 2021, would repudiate the so-called “Insular Cases,” a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the… Civil rights groups call on House to pass ...
The Supreme Court declined to consider whether American Samoans have U.S. citizenship at birth, a case that would have provided a review of the "Insular Cases."
The Insular Cases were a series of rulings issued in the 1900s, soon after the U.S. had acquired Puerto Rico and other territories, in which the court said people in those jurisdictions did not ...
The Insular Cases, 182 U.S. 1 (1901) Full constitutional protections are not automatically granted to all United States territories. The Constitution only partially applies to unincorporated territories. Kinsella v. Krueger, 351 U.S. 470 (1956) The Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate. The military ...
14th Amendment permits law which penalizes railroads for allowing weeds to grow Kepner v. United States: 195 U.S. 100 (1904) sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Dorr v. United States: 195 U.S. 138 (1904) sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases: Gonzales v. Williams: 192 U.S. 1 (1904) Puerto Ricans and illegal aliens