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The Insular Cases have also been criticized for having been inconsistent in application between the two largest insular territories, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was seen as "an important geo-strategic asset" [ 27 ] for emerging U.S. imperialism and a gateway to Latin America, while insular control over the Philippines was a ...
The decision narrowly held that the Constitution does not necessarily apply to territories. Instead, the US Congress has jurisdiction to create law within territories in certain circumstances, particularly those dealing with revenue, which would not be allowed by the Constitution for US states. It has become known as one of the "Insular Cases".
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 ...
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 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 Internal Revenue Law of 1904 provided for general internal revenue taxes, documentary taxes and transfer of livestock. A wide variety of revenue stamps were issued in denominations ranging from one centavo to 20,000 pesos. The term "insular" refers to the fact that the government operated under the authority of the Bureau of Insular Affairs.
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."
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