...so far failed to execute the clause, Article IX, which provides that that body shall " determine " the "civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded." The above decision, it seems, has been considered by some to hold that Porto Ricans, as they are not...

...provisions of the treaty do not stipulate for incorporation, but on the contrary expressly provide that the " civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded," shall be determined by Congress. When the rights to which this careful provision refers are put in...

...the Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of $20,000,000, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the congress. "The treaty was ratified by the...

...Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by the...

...treaty of Paris (1898) asserted and had adopted at the end of the ninth article the following clause : " The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (islands) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." In the treaty with...

...the general rule ol nationality applied to him. It is true that the same clause (IX) provides that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. But this determination belonged to Congress...

...In that the court held that the ninth article of the treaty of Paris, whereby it was declared that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thereby ceded to the United States should be determined by Congress, was to be construed to the effect...

...treaty of Paris (1898) asserted, and had adopted at the end of the ninth article the following clause, "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (islands) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress" : of the United States."...

...allegiance] and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. "The civil and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded shall be determined by the Congress." The most common view of the subject of the citizenship of the...

...has been suggested to that effect — that it (the treaty) provides that the Congress shall determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the ceded islands and that the Spanish-born inhabitants may have one year in which to choose whether to...