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Self-Determination in Puerto Rico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Jaime Benítez
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Abstract

As a form of government the Estado Libre Asociado, or to use the English title the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, reflects a cultural, economic, social, political process of long duration. It also embodies an explicit program of political pioneering initiated after the end of World War II.

Type
The Applicability of the Principle of Self-Determination to Unintegrated Territories of the United States: The Cases of Puerto Rico and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 67 , Issue 5: Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. April 12-14, 1973 , November 1973 , pp. 7 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973

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Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.