...the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898, by which Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States (sec. 9) : "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." The Court concluded : "As the Congress...

...Philippine Islands to the United States. Article IX of the Treaty of Paris (30 Stat. 1754) provided that: "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." States, which were generally...

...Philippine Islands to the United States. Article of the Treaty of Paris (30 Stat. 1754) provided that— "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the tei tories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congrès Puerto Rico and the...

...Puerto Rican people. Citing again from the same book, I have here the Treaty of Paris, 1898, section 9 : The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The Puerto Rican Parliament...

...to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. 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. The Organic Act of Puerto Rico,...

...provision.1 " In the treaty with Spain transferring Puerto Rico to this country, it was provided : ' 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.'* Legally the political status...

...guiding principle relating to the civil rights and political status of the Inhabitants of Puerto Rico. "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." The meaning of the above is clear,...

...guiding principle relating to the civil rights and political status of the Inhabitants of Puerto Rico. "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." The meaning of the above is clear,...

...United States by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1899 (30 Stat. 1754). Article 9 of said treaty reads : The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (Puerto Rico and the Philippines) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress....

...Puerto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies . . . H "Article IX. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." The Insular cases, 182 US 1 (1901),...