"Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" wrote:
> We have under the umbrella of both our constitution and the US constitution.
> We have our local government, but we respond to the Feds 100%. We have no
> Free Trade Agreement, and all trade has to be done through US Customs. We
> pay taxes but we have no Senate representation; just a Resident Commissioner
> in Washington who in the case of the current appointed political
> sweet-potato, acts more like a paperweight or a doormat. We have US
> currency, as well.
>
> We have US citizenship, which for us is a blessing, as controversial as that
> sounds. However, we still can't vote for the Presidency. We have the power
> to elect our own governor and officials, and the island is under a local
> democratic system of Senate/House of Representatives. The higher authority,
> as far as legal matters go, is the Federal Court.
Sounds a little like DC was in the early 20th century. My mother told me
that every time there was a presidential election, around election day, the
local paper in DC would run an article or editorial that listed a number of
groups that couldn't vote in the presidential election, and it included
felons, the insane, and residents of DC.
That's been fixed since then. So while my grandparents couldn't vote in the
1936 election, my sister *could* vote in the 2000 election. (My
grandparents moved their family to Arlington, VA in 1939 or so, by my
understanding, and that they were living in DC from sometime before 1934
until then, in a row house. My sister has lived in DC from sometime in 1995
to mid-1996, and then again since early 1997.)
Julia
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