Our government must
allow a vote from the citizens of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Country or State
and then back off
and give in to their wishes.
While we are at it,
back off the ridiculous debt
made for the most part
by this our government!
And this is why it
should be.
In 1776 a ragtag
group of citizens went to war against an overpowering overlord (the King of the
British Isles), to become a free country!
Why should this
country overlord any other country or territory?
These inlands are
not a country or a state.
However, at times a
non willing possession!
Puerto Rico’s
Complicated History with the United States
It all
started with
which
began in the spring of 1898, when Puerto Rico was a Spanish territory.
not only because it was a Spanish territory,
but
also due to its interests in developing a sugar market there,
a
history professor at the University of Florida.
In the first three
decades of its rule, the U.S. government made efforts to Americanize its new
possession, including granting full U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917
and considering a measure that would make English the island’s official
language. However, during the 1930s, a nationalist movement led by the Popular
Democratic Party won wide support across the island, and further U.S.
assimilation was successfully opposed. Beginning in 1948, Puerto Ricans could
elect their own governor, and in 1952 the U.S. Congress approved a new Puerto
Rican constitution that made the island an autonomous U.S. commonwealth, with
its citizens retaining American citizenship. The constitution was formally
adopted by Puerto Rico on July 25, 1952, the 54th anniversary of the U.S.
invasion.
Also while we are at
freeing these slave territories!
Organic Act
of the
Virgin Islands
October 1776.
Although unofficial, the exchange marked the first acknowledgment of an
American flag from foreign soil.
The U.S. Navy and
the Interior Departments ran the territory
until Congress passed the Organic
Act of the Virgin Islands in 1936, which was revised in 1954.
Since then, the
islands have held five constitutional conventions. The 2009 convention adopted
a proposed territorial constitution that Congress rejected in 2010. The
lawmakers and the Obama administration urged the delegates to try again.
Accordingly, the convention reconvened in October 2012 to weigh revisions. But
it proved unable to reach a consensus before an Oct. 31 deadline.
Today,
the islands
remain a U.S. territory, run by an elected governor. The residents are American
citizens.
