03046cam a22004098i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300600180003000700150004800800410006301000170010402000180012102000260013902000180016502000300018304000230021304200080023604300120024405000230025608200160027910000480029524500550034326400480039830000340044633600260048033700260050633800360053249000760056850400510064450504640069552010350115958801030219465000370229765000320233477601410236685601290250722888234OSt20240606093551.0m    |o  d |     cr_|||||||||||221014s2022    nyu     ob    001 0 eng    a  2022049946  a9780190461294  a9780190461287q(epub)  a9780190461270  z9780190461263q(hardback)  aDLCbengcDLCerda  apcc  anwpr---00aKGV3161b.C69 202200a342.7295/021 aCox Alomar, Rafael Antonio,d1974-eauthor.14aThe Puerto Rico Constitution /cRafael Cox Alomar. 1aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2022.  a1 online resource (305 pages)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aThe Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPart One. The Constitutional history of Puerto Rico -- Part Two. The Puerto Rico Constitution and commentary -- Preamble -- Article I : The commonwealth -- Article II : The bill of rights -- Article III : The legislature -- Article IV : The executive -- Article V : The judiciary -- Article VI : General provisions -- Article VII : Amendments to the constitution -- Article VIII : Senatorial and representative districts -- Article IX : Transitory provisions.  a"Puerto Rico's legal tradition traces its origins back to medieval Spain. Discovered (figuratively) by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas, on November 19, 1493, Puerto Rico soon became an overseas colony of the Spanish Crown. The stage was thus set for a colonial entanglement that lasted over four hundred years, making Puerto Rico one of Spain's oldest possessions in the Americas. Puerto Rico's legal culture belongs to the civil law system, deriving its defining features from legal institutions as ancient as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis and Alfonso X's Siete As shall be discussed in further detail below, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, on December 10, 1898, the Spanish Kingdom relinquished in favor of the United States "all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba," while also ceding Puerto Rico (then a Spanish overseas province by virtue of the 1897 Autonomic Charter), Guam and the Philippines to the victor of the so-called Spanish-American War"--cProvided by publisher.  aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. 0aConstitutional lawzPuerto Rico. 0aConstitutionszPuerto Rico.08iPrint version:aCox Alomar, Rafael.tPuerto Rico ConstitutiondNew York : Oxford University Press, 2022z9780190461263w(DLC) 2022049945  uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7147803yOprime aquí para acceder libro en línea.