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To: newzjunkey

You’re just winging it, too, newzjunkey. I’d directed you to The Insular Cases not very many days ago, regarding Puerto Rico being an unincorporated territory, with all the attendant consequences of that for putative VP candidates, but you’re still touting a falsehood.

For starters, see:

Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298, 66 L.Ed. 627, 42 S.Ct. 346 (1922): The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, requiring that in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury did not apply in Puerto Rico. The right was not required in territories that had not been “incorporated” into the United States, as distinguished from territories merely belonging to the United States. “[W]e find no features in the Organic Act of Porto Rico of 1917 from which we can infer the purpose of Congress to incorporate Porto Rico into the United States with the consequences which would follow.”

Don’t make me rub your nose in it and embarrass you, newzjunkey.


79 posted on 04/18/2012 5:49:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Don’t make me rub your nose in it and embarrass you, newzjunkey.

Without lawyers this would be simple.

Parents are citizens, and child is born on U.S.Soil? Yes Then NBC, else not NBC.

Parent status unknown, birthplace unknown, then Lawyers make money.

97 posted on 04/19/2012 12:11:36 PM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period, and by election day you won't like him either.)
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