Questions tagged [puerto-rico]
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Can a US citizen who moves from Puerto Rico to Canada vote in the presidential election?
An American who moves abroad maintains the status he had when he lived in the homeland. So a New Yorker who moves to Canada still can vote for his congressman, senator and the nation's president. (...
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Why the same-sex marriage Supreme Court decision applies also to Puerto Rico when the Fourteen Amendment does not apply to territories?
This is in relation to a comment on this question that I also made.
In one of the comments, one of the users made this statement:
The Fourteenth Amendment talks about states (and Puerto Rico is ...
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Are limiting voting rights to residents of Puerto Rico unconstitutional?
This is something that I have been thinking after the decision from Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court based its decision on the fact that prohibiting same-sex marriages ...
