Comments on: The Judicial Role in Creating Puerto Rico’s Political Condition and Contemporary Judicial Passiveness on the Subject https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/07/17/couret-puerto-rico-status/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: J. Alejandro Amoros https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/07/17/couret-puerto-rico-status/#comment-707 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:55:35 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=9229#comment-707 “Dubious theories devised by legal scholars from Yale and Harvard and the subsequent blessing of those theories by the Supreme Court played a crucial role in the disenfranchisement of residents of Puerto Rico, a population of U.S. citizens…” The problem with this is the implied assumption that Puerto Ricans were already, somehow, part of the U.S. and then denied full citizens rights. It’s like placing the cart before the horse.

]]> By: Guest Post: Albéniz Couret on Puerto Rico’s Political Status | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/07/17/couret-puerto-rico-status/#comment-706 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:27:12 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=9229#comment-706 […] guest poster Albéniz Couret Fuentes comments on Puerto Rico’s political status. This guest post stems from a discussion Albéniz and […]

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