Contents:
PART I: The Problem of Constitutional Status to 1950.
PART II: Public Law 600 of 1950 and the New Constitution of 1952.
Chapter 1 – House and Senate Committee Hearings on Public Law 600.
Chapter 2 – The Local Constitutional Convention, 1951 - 1952.
Chapter 3 – Debates of House and Senate Committees and Plenary Congress hearings on the new Constitution, 1952.
Chapter 4 – The Nature of the Permanent Achievement.
Chapter 5 – General Conclusion.
PART III: Subsequent Debate on the Problems Relating to Amendment and Enlargement of the Constitution and the Federal Relations Statute, 1952 – 1960.
PART IV: The Associated Free State: The Inherent Difficulties.
Chapter 1 – The Defects of the Present Arrangement.
Chapter 2 – The Character of Federal Skepticism.
Chapter 3 – Summation of Federal Attitude.
Chapter 4 – The Metamorphosis of Puerto Rican Attitudes.
Chapter 5 – The Economics of Status.
Chapter 6 – The Occupational Hazards of Association.
Chapter 7 – The Limits of the Puerto Rican Case as an International Model.
PART V: The Application of the Puerto Rican case to the West Indian Federation.
APPENDICES:
A – H.R. 5926, 86th Congress, 1st Session, “A Bill to provide amendments to the compact between the people of Puerto Rico and the United States.
B – Excerpt of Exchange between Governor Muñoz Marin and Senator Jackson, from “Hearings of Senate Committee of the Interior and Insular Affairs”, June 1959.
C – “The Cidra Declaration”, Official announcement on the status problem ratified by the Central Committee of the Partido Popular Democratico, September 1959.
D - “Text of Radio Address” in elaboration of the Cidra Declaration, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, September 1959.
E – Report of the United States Bureau of the Budget, “Flow of Federal funds into, and receipts from, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, October 1959.
F – “New aspects of Puerto Rican Migration” by Robert O. Carleton, Puerto Rico Planning Board.
No comments:
Post a Comment