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    "ocrText": "urged be citizens of the United States, resident in Puerto He\npresidential that vote to the citizens of the District of Columbia,\nThis 20, 1964, by the Congress and of This\nissue was resolved with the passage of Law Public No. Law 9, April 88-271, 13,\ngranted the right to vote for President and Vice President. Rico.\nFebruary the Legislative Assembly of the Commonwealth. United States-\nplea was not heeded and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico This\non the Status of Puerto Rico (the\nthe establishment of a Status\nnot included in the 23d amendment to the Constitution of Was\nUnited States when it was approved in 1961.\nthe\nto \"study all factors * which may have United a bearing States\nCommonwealth of Puerto Rico (Dec. 3, 1962), approved with the\nJoint Resolution No. 1 of the Legislative Assembly of\nthe present and future relationship between the\non\nsupport the of both of the then major parties,2 read: \"To the\nand Puerto Status Rico.' Commission issued its report in 1966, proposing\na\nthe Congress of the United States the procedure\nplebiscite The on the status of Puerto Rico. The report also recom-\nthe ulterior final political status of the people of\nmended:\nlution advocated, among other things:\nelectorate should favor a developed Commonwealth, the\ngrowth Assembly's Resolution No. 1 of December 3, 1962, or advisory\nIf the of the Commonwealth along the lines of the Commonwealth through other\npeople of Puerto Rico should maintain their desire for the further Legis-\nreso.\nParticipation the by the people of Puerto Rico in the powers\nlative that may be conducive to Commonwealth growth, proposals³ a joint (Italic\nunder compact, by the Government of the United States, in exercised\nmeasures or groups would be convened to consider these\nThis affecting Puerto Rico, in a measure proportional to the matters\nright may to include, among other ways of implementing\ngroup supplied by the Ad Hoc Advisory Group.)\nvote for the President and Vice President of the\nThe Status Commission proposed that the ad hoc joint advi-\nsory groups, to be appointed by the President of the United States\nPopular held Democratic Party's Program and Regulations Convention the\nThis resolution accorded with the position adopted by\nand the Governor of Puerto Rico, jointly:\nbe composed of persons of the highest prestige and ability, and would the\nin August 1962. Following a debate of many hours, a\nwould problems affecting the relations between the Island and and the\nPresident and Vice President.\nity of the convention resolved in favor of the right to vote major- for\nMainland consider referred to them by the President of the United States its\nof Puerto Rico. Each joint advisory group would report\nThe proposal of Joint Resolution No. 1 (Dec. 3, 1962)\nGovernor conclusions and recommendations to the President and Congress of the\nconsidered by Congress in 1963. On May 16-17 of that year, was the\nThe membership of each advisory group would be determined by the nature Hoc\nUnited States and to the Governor and Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico.\nSubcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs of the House of\nof the particular problem under consideration. (Italic supplied by the Ad\nRepresentatives held public hearings on the matter. The Puerto\nAdvisory Group.)\nRico proposal for a status plebiscite, however, was amended\nOn December 23, 1966, the Legislative Assembly of the\nbecome a proposal to study the status. The chairman of the to\nCommonwealth of Puerto Rico, pursuant to recommendations of\nsubcommittee, Congressman 'Brien of New York, said on the\nthe Status Commission report, enacted Act. No. 1 (the Plebiscite\nfloor (Congressional Record, Oct. 23, 1963, p. 5):\nAct), \"To provide for the holding of a Plebiscite on the Political\nStatus of Puerto Rico The act, quoting from the Status\nview differences in Puerto Rico and in Washington, to write task,\nOur of Committee soon discovered that it would be a monumental in\nCommission report concerning the plebiscite and advisory groups,\nthe Commonwealth\" bill * * * That left us with only two alternatives, a \"perfected to\nstated that Commonwealth development should follow the lines of\nhave request from the Government of Puerto Rico, or to the bill scorn we\nJoint Resolution No. 1 of December 3, 1962. The act provided:\nI believe Rico. This bill promises nothing more than a high level parties * *\nin Puerto today, a bill, incidentally, which is acceptable to the prepare two major\nA vote in favor of the Commonwealth shall mean:\npeople of Puerto Rico will have a better compass for the future.\na historic document will emerge from this study and that study we and the *\nagreement under the terms of Act 600 of 1950 and Joint Resolution 447 of\n(1) The reaffirmation of the Commonwealth established by mutual\n2\nThe Popular Democratic Party and the Statehood Republican Party.\n3 Report of the United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto\nRico, p. 9.\n108\n109"
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