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The law enumerates seven specific rights to which Mother Earth and her constituent life systems, including human communities, are entitled: [9] To life: It is the right to the maintenance of the integrity of life systems and natural processes which sustain them, as well as the capacities and conditions for their renewal
Puerto Rico is the only current U.S. jurisdiction whose legal system operates primarily in a language other than American English: namely, Spanish.Because the U.S. federal government operates primarily in English, Puerto Rican attorneys are typically bilingual in order to litigate in English in U.S. federal courts and to litigate federal preemption issues in Puerto Rican courts.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Constitution of the Free Associated State of Puerto Rico') is the primary organizing law for the unincorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, describing the duties, powers, structures and functions of the government of Puerto Rico in nine articles.
1748–1753 Jaun Francico de la Puerta y de la Barrera; 1753–1761 Mateo Antonio de Mendoza Díaz de Arce; 1761–1769 José Carlos de Agüero y González de Agüero; 1769–1776 José de Fayni y Gálvez; 1776–1784 Felipe de Barri; 1784–1785 Juan Velázquez; 1785–1785 Manuel Muñoz; 1785–1786 Manuel Flon y Tejada, conde de la Cadena
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Tribunal Supremo) is the highest court of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority to interpret and decide questions of Puerto Rican law.The Court is analogous to one of the state supreme courts of the states of the United States; being the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico the highest state court and the court of last resort in Puerto Rico.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
In 1898, following the conclusion of the Spanish–American War, Spain ceded the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico and its surrounding archipelago to the United States. . Initially run by the military, from 1900 onwards measures began to be enacted giving the people of Puerto Rico a measure of local civilian government, while bringing the population more within the larger community of the Unite
Also, unlike the Puerto Rican political parties above, all of which are based in Puerto Rico, these parties are headquartered in mainland United States. Democratic Party of Puerto Rico – (Spanish: Partido Demócrata de Puerto Rico) is the Puerto Rico affiliate of the U.S. national Democratic Party.