Title Almost citizens : Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and empire / Sam Erman, University of Southern California

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 275 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in legal history Studies in legal history. Contents 1898: "The Constitutional Lion in the Path" -- The Constitution and the New U.S. Expansion: Debating the Status of the Islands -- "We Are Naturally Americans": Federico Degetau and Santiago Iglesias Pursue Citizenship -- "American Aliens": Isabel Gonzalez, Domingo Collazo, Federico Degetau, and the Supreme Court, 1902-1905 -- Reconstructing Puerto Rico, 1904-1909 -- The Jones Act and the Long Path to Collective Naturalization 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 Notes Based on the 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-265) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 11, 2019) Subject Citizenship -- United States Puerto Ricans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. International law Citizenship Politics and government Puerto Ricans -- Legal status, laws, etc. SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- International status Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108958 Subject Puerto Rico United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108246453 1108246451 9781108233866 1108233864

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