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Transcript: POLITICAL STATUS OF PUERTO RICO:FERNANDO MARTIN
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- Congressional Testimony
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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Congressional Testimony
04-25-2007
Statement of Fernando Martin Executive President Puerto Rican Independence
Party Committee on House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs
April 25, 2007 Puerto Rico is the only nation of even remotely comparable
population where the most fundamental and important laws regulating its
collective life are made by the legislature of another country, and are
administered and enforced by the government of the other country, without
the participation of the people who are thus governed. Even local laws
enacted by Puerto Rico`s Legislative Assembly -as well as municipal ordinances
and administrative regulations must conform to the constitution and laws
of ...
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