DO CITIZENS IN US TERRITORIES HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS THOSE IN THE FIFTY STATES OF THE UNITED STATES?


By Peter J. Spiro, 2020; The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, 2018; Diego Acosta, 2018; Nils A. Butenschon et al.,2000; Samuel P. Huntington’s 2005; Patrick Weil, 1789

Do persons in the United States' regions have the same rights as residents of the 50 states?

On the boat, those born in US territory are immediately awarded citizenship. However, US citizens living in territory (including those born in the 50 states and eligible for birth citizenship under the 14th Amendment) are subject to a constitutional distinction. In a series of early twentieth-century rulings known as the insular cases, the Supreme Court concluded that the Constitution would not "follow the flag" to so-called unincorporated areas, defined as areas not on the way to statehood. The Court ruled that the government had simply evaluated "basic safeguards," which did not need a jury trial.
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As a result, as stated in the previously cited Reid V. Covert case, the Constitution fully applies to US government action conducted against US civilians outside of US sovereign regions, but not to US people living on sovereign territory outside of the 50 states. Existing unincorporated regions include Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Guam, as well as the Philippines, which did not acquire independence from US rule until 1946. In practise, isolated situations have little effect. For Puerto Rico and other territories, the bulk of the Bill of Rights has been enacted into law. 

However, US citizens residing in Puerto Rico do not have the right to vote in federal elections, despite the fact that they would have the right to vote if they lived in, instance, Paris. As a metaphor, the history of the Insular cases reinforces Puerto Rico's unequal place in the American political imagination, as illustrated by Hurricane Maria's aftermath. Territorial citizenship might be considered a subcategory of citizenship. This discriminatory legislation enacted by the territory governor of the United States is now possibly exclusive. In 2011, the European Court of Justice decided that a Dutch policy declaring Aruba residents unable to vote violated EU law.

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