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On March 16, 2011, the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status issued a third report [62] that reaffirmed the legal position adopted by the three previous presidents over nearly a quarter century that Puerto Rico remains today "subject to the Territory Clause of the U.S. Constitution (see Report at p. 26), that the territory's long-term ...
On December 21, 2007, the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Political Status issued a second Report. This 2007 Report stated that the United States, in its written submission to the UN in 1953, never represented that the U.S. Congress could not change its relationship with Puerto Rico without the territory's consent. [13]
The United States acquired the islands of Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish–American War, and the archipelago has been under U.S. sovereignty since.In 1950, Congress enacted the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950 or legislation (P.L. 81-600), authorizing Puerto Rico to hold a constitutional convention and, in 1952, the people of Puerto Rico ratified a constitution establishing a ...
The passage of the Jones Act in 1917 automatically granted all Puerto Rican citizens U.S. citizenship, further integrating the island but failing to give the people of Puerto Rico self-determination. The political parties in Puerto Rico campaigned for legal reform of Puerto Rico, but were largely unsuccessful until 1946, when Jesús T. Piñero ...
List of United States presidential visits to Puerto Rico; Proposed political status for Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican Commission; Independence movement in Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican Independence Party; Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency; Puerto Rican Operating Area; Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party; Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950
The extent of the powers of the government of Puerto Rico and the rights of the citizens of Puerto Rico as enumerated in the Constitution of Puerto Rico and the laws of Puerto Rico are subject to the authority of the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the United States, which are enacted and amended by the Congress of the United ...
The nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the U.S. is the subject of ongoing debate in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Congress, and the United Nations. [122] Specifically, the basic question is whether Puerto Rico should remain an unincorporated territory of the U.S., become a U.S. state, or become an independent country. [123]
On July 23, 1967, the first plebiscite on the political status of Puerto Rico was held. Voters affirmed continuation of Commonwealth status (Commonwealth–60.4% Statehood–39%; Independence–0.6%). [101] Other plebiscites have been held to determine the political status of Puerto Rico, in 1993 and in 1998.