Academics of prominent universities reject Nydia Velázquez’s status project

In a company card for 47 members of university universities in the United States, academics will consider the status project for Puerto Rico proposed by Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, which seeks to establish a constitutional assembly.

The motion was sent to the President of the Chamber of Federal Representatives, Nancy Pelosy; the leader of the mayor in the Senate, Charles Schumer; ya los lidderes republicanos Kevin McCarthy y Mitch McConnell.

On the other hand, he will show his “strong support” in the legislative project presented by the resident commissioner Jenniffer González and the congressman of the original Puerto Rican, Darren Soto, in which he will ratify the November result passed by the 52.5% vote .

“As all states, we support self-determination. But the difference between the parties of the Self-Determination Law, we believe that self-determination requires that the United States open to the poor in a more open state. “Constitutionally, under the above reason that neither the Congress nor Puerto Rico has the power to implement an unconstitutional option. And it must be territorial, because territorial option is not self-determination”, reads the map.

The document was made by professors at Yale, Kent State, Columbia, Duke, Berkeley, Washington State, Cornell, Princeton, NYU, Harvard, and more.

“There are two, and only two, real options for self-determination for Puerto Rico: the state of independence. (…) For decades, the defenders of” ELA “argue that there is no territorial. Argument that when Puerto Rico has the transition at the Free State Associated in 1952, the day of being a territory of the EU. UU. “create a permanent union between Puerto Rico and the United States except to admit to Puerto Rico as a state”, we will continue.

The academic academics in which the division between the “ever” poorer portfolios has come to the conclusion that the territorial state of reality is being rebuilt should continue to be American citizens.

In addition, he points out that the project proposed by the resident commission “respects the result of the referendum responding with concrete actions, ensuring that the poor are connected to the first and last word about its future”.

The recommendation:

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