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Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

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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 ...

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Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108401494

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Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108415491

Hardcover