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...Puerto Rico is a new kind of state, both in the sense of the United States Federal System and in the general sense of a people organized to govern themselves," Munoz pointed out in his second Godkin lecture last night...
Admitting that the relationships between Puerto Rico and the United States have not been refined to the highest possible degree, Munoz explained that legislation is in progress to correct the inadequacies...
...from the Puerto Rican Supreme Court will be redirected to the U.S. Supreme Court rather than to the Circuit Court of Boston. Munoz said that his government is also considering both a plan that would enable the President of the United States to negotiate certain commercial treaties for Puerto Rico, and a system that would allow Puerto Rican citizens to pay for federal functions performed in Puerto Rico...
Speaking with the deliberateness of an academician but the incisiveness of a lawyer, Munoz yesterday explained to those assembled in his top-floor suite at the Statler-Hilton that he considered himself a Federalist, but of a new kind. Puerto Rico is allied with the United States in the framework of a larger and looser federal structure than the one originally conceived of in the Union, he feels. "We have initiated a contribution of a new and different kind in the American constitutional system. It is the first new development since the thirteen original states. We want...
...economics of living are still Puerto Rico's greatest problem. Unemployment has decreased over the last few years, Munoz explained, but not as much as is ideally desirable. At present, 12 per cent of the labor force is unemployed...