Almost citizens : Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and empire
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Almost citizens : Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and empire
(Studies in legal history)
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : pbk
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"Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Michigan, 2010), issued under title: Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship : Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917"--CIP data
Summary: "Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As America became an overseas empire, a handful of remarkable Puerto Ricans debated with US legislators, presidents, judges, and others over who was a citizen and what citizenship meant. This struggle caused a fundamental shift in constitution law: away from the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood and toward doctrines that accommodated racist imperial governance. Erman's gripping account shows how, in the wake of the Spanish-American War, administrators, lawmakers, and presidents together with judges deployed creativity and ambiguity to transform constitutional meaning for a quarter of a century. The result is a history in which the United States and Latin America, Reconstruction and empire, and law and bureaucracy intertwine"-- Provided by publisher
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. 1898: 'The constitutional lion in the path'
- 2. The Constitution and the new US expansion: debating the status of the Islands
- 3. 'We are naturally Americans': Federico Degetau and Santiago Iglesias pursue citizenship
- 4. 'American aliens': Isabel Gonzalez, Domingo Collazo, Federico Degetau, and the Supreme Court, 1902-1905
- 5. Reconstructing Puerto Rico, 1904-1909
- 6. The Jones Act and the long path to collective naturalization
- Conclusion.
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