Puerto Rico Self-determination: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on H. Con. Res. 94 ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 |
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act of self-determination administration agreement American Samoa apply Article 73 authority bill Chairman Chamorro self-determination colonial Commission on Self-Determination commitment Committee Concurrent Resolution 94 CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional constitutional amendment Covenant decolonization decolonization process delegates democratic determination elected exercise FALEOMAVAEGA Federal Government free association fundamental Governor hearing Honorable House Concurrent Resolution independence Insular and International insular areas Interior International Affairs international law issue LEARY legislation legislature LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LUGO LUJAN military native inhabitants Ninth Circuit non-self-governing territories Northern Marianas obligations options OTIA Palau participate plebiscite plenary power political status population principle proposal Puerto Rico question recognize relationship residents right of self-determination Rivera Ron de Lugo self-determination process self-government sovereignty statehood statement Subcommittee on Insular Supreme Court Task Force Territorial Clause Thank tion Treaty of Paris U.N. Charter U.S. citizenship U.S. Constitution U.S. Virgin Islands UNDERWOOD unincorporated territories vote Washington
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36. lappuse - ... 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.
90. lappuse - 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.
38. lappuse - All peoples have the right of selfdetermination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
143. lappuse - To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; 3.
143. lappuse - With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote: a.
36. lappuse - Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories, and, to this end: a. to ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples concerned, their political, economic, social, and educational advancement, their just treatment, and their protection against abuses; b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances...
46. lappuse - If, then, this clause does contain a power to legislate respecting the territory, what are the limits of that power? To this I answer that, in common with all the other legislative powers of congress, it finds limits in the express prohibitions on congress not to do certain things; that, in the exercise of the legislative power, congress cannot pass an ex post facto law or bill of attainder; and so in respect to each of the other prohibitions contained in the constitution.
91. lappuse - Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.
48. lappuse - But in ordaining government for the Territories, and the people who inhabit them, all the discretion which belongs to legislative power is vested in Congress ; and that extends, beyond all controversy, to determining by law, from time to time, the form of the local government in a particular Territory, and the qualification of those who shall administer it.
67. lappuse - It must be remembered that Congress, in the government of the Territories as well as of the District of Columbia, has plenary power, save as controlled by the provisions of the Constitution...