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Acevedo's agreement amend American ANÍBAL ACEVEDO-VILÁ Assembly authority BERRÍOS bill binding Chairman CNMI colonial Committee Commonwealth of Puerto commonwealth status Congress congressional constitutional convention Covenant democratic federal government federal law Foraker Act FORTUÑO free association G.A. Res independence Insular international law issue Justice Department legislation LEIBOWITZ Marshall Islands ment Micronesia mutual consent non-territorial status Northern Mariana Islands OLC Memo Palau party plebiscite political status President President's Task Force proposal Public Law 600 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico's status question recognized relationship Rican right to self-determination RUBÉN BERRÍOS MARTÍNEZ self-government Senator MARTINEZ Senator MENENDEZ Sess sovereign sovereignty statehood status of Puerto status options status resolution Supp supra note 170 Task Force Report Territorial Clause territorial status Thank tion Torruella treaty U.N. Charter U.N. Doc U.N. GAOR U.S. citizens U.S. citizenship U.S. Congress U.S. Constitution U.S. SENATOR U.S. Supreme Court unincorporated territory United Nations vote
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Page 134 - Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
Page 102 - ... recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories, and, to this end: a.
Page 110 - 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...
Page 99 - Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau These awards are made according to statutory requirements of the Museum and Library Services Act.
Page 88 - The inhabitants of the territories which his catholic majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the federal constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Page 84 - The correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power.
Page 148 - In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, In com^munity with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, or to use their own language.
Page 84 - The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a state, or a municipality or a citizen.
Page 84 - When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights...
Page 102 - Secretary-General for information purposes, subject to such limitation as security and constitutional considerations may require, statistical and other information of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational conditions...