Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050111495

Mr. Chairman. there has been so much demagoguery here. When they discuss it they say that we are not allowing the people that support commonwealth to vote because we say that citizenship is statutory. What else is it? There is a Constitution of the United States that says that those born in a State are citizens and also those that are naturalized are citizens. The Constitution does not say anything else. So it is by law in 1917 that established that those born in Puerto Rico shall be citizens of the United States. so we are citizens by a statute.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CARLOS ROMERO-BARCELO
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
PR
Gender
M
Date
1998-03-03
Speech ID
1050111495
Paragraph
#0
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