...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones * * *. The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress." Id. at 339. I/The Congress1 authority is exercised both as an incident to its right to acquire territory...

...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones * * *. The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress." Jd. at 339-40. On the basis of the quoted treaty provision, Justice White concluded that the express...

...Rico, supra, pp. 47-53. stated, in what was to become a contentious provision in the Insular Cases: "The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." (Article 1X, Para. 2). Puerto Rico thus settled into a military government which lasted...

...264 : " The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain authorized the Congress to determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and by the Act of July I, 1902. 32 Stat. 691, declared that all inhabitants continuing...

...united States to determine what their civil and political rights will be:1' The civil rights and the political status of the native Inhabitants of the...United States, shall be determined by the Congress . Hence, there are four different situations contemplated, all of them relating to Spanish subjects:...

...Islands from Spain under the Treaty of Paris.1 That document granted Congress the power to determine "[t]he civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants. . . ."of the Islands. 2 Commencing in 1902, 'Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain, 30 Stat. 1754...

...lied elsewhere, in the Treaty of Paris and its delegation to Congress of the responsibility to fix " the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the ceded territory". This also was a special power and it is this author's contention that it was not...

...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marinas or Ladrones .... The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. 8 There has not been a single cession made from the time of the Confederation up to the present day,...

...under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marinas or Ladrones .... The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.8 On the basis of the quoted treaty provision, Justice White concluded that the express purpose...

...permanence of territorial links, without referring to the criteria of nationality and residence, thus: 'The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.'456 But although the criterion of nationality was not mentioned, it is clear that Spain could...