United States v. Vaello Madero
Vol. 136 No. 1
Equal protection under the Fifth Amendment guarantees that the federal government will not discriminate against individuals without a rational basis. Not in Puerto Rico....
U.S. Territories
Developments in the Law
United States v. Vaello-Madero
First Circuit Affirms that Unequal Federal Benefits Program in Puerto Rico Violates Fifth Amendment.
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Adjudication Outside Article III
Vol. 133 No. 5
Article III requires federal judges who exercise federal jurisdiction to be given life tenure and undiminished compensation, limiting Congress’s ability to influence the judiciary....
Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation
Vol. 133 No. 3
For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...
Davis v. Guam
Ninth Circuit Holds That Guam's Plebiscite Law Violates Fifteenth Amendment.
Vol. 133 No. 2
Problematizing the Protection of Culture and the Insular Cases
U.S. Territories Commentary Series
Response to American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism
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Accomplices of Abbott Lawrence Lowell
U.S. Territories Commentary Series
Vol. 131 No. 5
Why Puerto Rico Does Not Need Further Experimentation with Its Future: A Reply to the Notion of “Territorial Federalism”
U.S. Territories Commentary Series
Response to Territorial Federalism
Vol. 131 No. 3
American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism
Chapter Three
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Introduction
Vol. 130 No. 6
American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — these five localities make up what we know as...