 | United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico - 1966 - 590 σελίδες
...United States. The Treaty of Paris of 1898 between the United States and Spain provides in article 9 — The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. Interpreting this language the Supreme Court held in Dorr v. US, 195 US 138, as follows:... | |
 | United States. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission - 1968 - 820 σελίδες
...whereby Spain ceded the Philippine Islands to the United States, Congress was authorized to determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. By Act of Congress of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 691, 692) it was declared that all... | |
 | 1901 - 1328 σελίδες
...1898, and confirmed by the Senate on the 6th of February 1899. Article II. of the treaty states that 'the civil rights and political status of the native...the United States shall be determined by Congress.' Section 8, Article I., of the Constitution of the United States declares that 'all duties, imposts,... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1976 - 178 σελίδες
...Treaty of Paris of 1899, Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain to the United States, with the provision that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory be determined by the US Congress.4 These negotiations were between representatives of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1975 - 1028 σελίδες
...(1828). And in the case of Puerto Rico, the Treaty of Paris, 30 Stat. 1754 (1899), specifically provided: "The civil rights and political status of the native...the United States shall be determined by Congress." Id., at 1759. Congress exercised its powers fully. Thus, by the Foraker Act, 31 Stat. 77, the President... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1980 - 106 σελίδες
...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones * * *. The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." Id. at 339. I/The Congress1 authority is exercised both as an incident to its right... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1981 - 170 σελίδες
...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones * * *. The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." Jd. at 339-40. On the basis of the quoted treaty provision, Justice White concluded... | |
 | Juan R. Torruella - 1985 - 354 σελίδες
...Rico, supra, pp. 47-53. stated, in what was to become a contentious provision in the Insular Cases: "The civil rights and political status of the native...the United States shall be determined by Congress." (Article 1X, Para. 2). Puerto Rico thus settled into a military government which lasted from 1898 to... | |
 | H. Lauterpacht - 1988 - 642 σελίδες
...264 : " The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain authorized the Congress to determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and by the Act of July I, 1902. 32 Stat. 691, declared that all inhabitants continuing... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1989 - 932 σελίδες
...united States to determine what their civil and political rights will be:1' The civil rights and the political status of the native Inhabitants of the...ceded to the United States, shall be determined by the Congress . Hence, there are four different situations contemplated, all of them relating to Spanish... | |
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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. 
