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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority E.O. 10501\n-50-\nUnited States citizenship through acts of Congress\nto reside outside the United States without being sub-\n1\nject to loss of nationality.\nThe American citizenship of Puerto Ricans resi-\ndent in Puerto Rico is still qualified in three prin-\ncipal respects in comparison with the citizenship of\nAmericans - and Puerto Ricans - on the continent. One\nset of limitations derives from the restrictions on\ncomplete sovereignty, even as regards matters of local\nconcern, embodied in the Organic Act. A second defi-\nciency is nonparticipation in Federal grants to States\nexcept by special legislative enactment. These two\ntypes of limitations, however, are not peculiar to\nPuerto Rico, but derive from the nature of Puerto Rico's\nstatus as an insular possession and apply also to other\nterritorial possessions, even incorporated ones, such\nas Hawaii and Alaska. The third type of limitation,\nalthough also applying to other territorial possessions,\nbears directly on the citizenship privileges of the is-\nlanders, namely, their nonparticipation in the Federal\nGovernment's electoral and legislative machinery.\nThe restrictions of the first category flow from\nthe Organic Act, which, unlike State constitutions, is\nan act of Congress and is wholly subject to the discre-\ntion of Congress. The following are the primary limita-\ntions on the people's sovereignty contained in the\norganic law: (1) Limitations on the power of the Legis-\nlature to pass laws on financial matters;\nl\nGreen H. Hackworth, Digest of International Law\n(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940-1944\n8 volumes), vol. III, pp. 8-9, 70, 133, 142-147; Public\nLaw 776, 80th Congress, June 25, 1948. See also Senate\nReport No. 1418, 80th Congress, 2d Session, May 27, 1948.\nRESTRICTED"
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