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Puerto Rico
| Location |
In the Greater Antilles, between Caribbean Sea, N Atlantic Ocean |
| Latitude and longitude |
18 15 N, 66 30 W |
| Sovereignty |
United States of America |
| Political status notes |
A Commonwealth of the United States of America; officially, "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" |
| Population |
3,879,000 |
| Census notes |
est. July 1, 2003 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
9,065 |
| Capital |
San Juan |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
| Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
(Spanish), from Lex Juris, Puerto Rico |
| Foraker
Act, the Organic Act of Puerto Rico, April 12, 1900, c. 191, 31 Stat. 77 (Spanish), from Lex Juris, Puerto Rico |
| Jones
Act, the Organic Act of Puerto Rico, March 2, 1917, c. 446, 39 Stat. 951 (Spanish), from Lex Juris, Puerto Rico |
| Public Law 600 of July 3, 1950, providing for the organization of the constitutional government of Puerto Rico (Spanish), from Lex Juris, Puerto Rico |
| Treaty of Peace Between the United States and
Spain, December 10, 1898 (the Treaty of Paris),
from the Avalon Project at
Yale
Law
School |
Other legal documents online
|
| Leyes
y Reglamentos de la Rama Judicial (Spanish), from the Rama
Judicial de Puerto Rico |
| Opiniones
del Tribunal Supremo (Spanish) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Directory of
Resources for Research on Puerto Rico |
| Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
(Spanish), from the Government of Puerto Rico |
| History -
Historia, a collection of links on Puerto Rico in English and Spanish from the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture |
| Oficina
del Datos
Censo,
Gobierno de Puerto Rico (Spanish) |
| Puerto
Rico, Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C. |
| Puerto
Rico Law Blog, from Christian M. Frank Fas |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
| Welcome
to Puerto Rico |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| The
Alien-Citizen Paradox and Other Consequences of U.S. Colonialism,
by Ediberto Roma, in the Florida State University Law Review, volume 26,
at page 1 (?) (1998) |
| Congressional Research Service, U.S. Library of Congress,
Puerto Rico: A Chronology of Political Status History (Report 97-526 GOV, 1998), made available by the University of California
(PDF 36K) |
Second-Class
Citizens: The Separate and Unequal Treatment of Our Far-Flung
Territories, by Chris Mooney, in Legal Affairs (July-August
2003)
|
|
Six
Puerto Rican Congressmen Go to Washington, by José
R. Coleman Tió, in Yale Law Journal, volume 116, at page 1389 (2007) (PDF
153K), and Two
Puerto Rican Senators Stay Home, by Christina Duffy Burnett, in
Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, volume 116, at page 408 (2007) (PDF 98K) |
| United Nations General Assembly Special Committee on the
Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Special
Committee decision of 22 June 2001 concerning Puerto Rico (A/AC.109/2002/L.4,
May 6, 2002) (PDF) |
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