Talk:Constitution of Puerto Rico

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Why July 25?[edit]

Renowned law professor Antonio Fernós, the son of PR Constitutional Convention chairman Antonio Fernos Isern admitted in an El Nuevo Dia artcle today that Gov. Luis Muñoz Marin chose July 25 as the date to proclaim the Constitution as a ploy to overshadow the prior reason for celebrating a holiday on that day, the arrival of US military troops to PR n Guánica on July 25, 1898. Following is the relevant text:

Exactamente 54 años antes, el 25 de julio de 1898, las tropas de Estados Unidos invadieron Puerto Rico en el marco de la Guerra Hispano-Americana y conquistaron el País que hasta entonces era colonia española, si bien apenas comenzaba a obtener un tímido grado de autonomía bajo la Carta Autonómica de 1897.

Muñoz Marín habría escogido esa fecha como “una forma disimulada de quitarle al 25 de julio el toque militar de celebración de la invasión y en un sentido reclamar que izábamos la bandera nuestra”, sostiene el profesor de Derecho Antonio Fernós López-Cepero. El profesor escuchó la versión de boca de su padre, el doctor Antonio Fernós Isern, presidente de la Convención Constituyente.

En la década del 30, el gobernador Blanton Winship, comenzó a conmemorar la invasión con un desfile militar “como muestra del poder americano frente al nacionalismo albizuista”, explicó Fernós. Luego de 1952 se celebraba el ELA y no la invasión, agregó.

Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock and Constitution Day keynote speaker and former Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo highlighted this admission today as an important historical fact long suspected but never previously confirmed. I have included a reference in the article. Pr4ever (talk) 23:42, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excluded text[edit]

The Congress, in approving the Constitution, required that it be amended to exclude certain texts. That significant fact is not addressed by the article. It should. Pr4ever (talk) 19:44, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Pr4ever:Agreed Endercase (talk) 22:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pr4ever: Do you have any sources that cover this? -- 16:12, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Depth of coverage[edit]

We really shouldn't have the whole text listed here, that is what Wikisource is for (which is linked at the bottom of the article). The article should be reduced to briefly summarize the text based on reliable sources coverage on the material to maintain notability standards. Having more sources and less "non-notable" information would be very helpful in improving the quality of this article. --Endercase (talk) 16:12, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Language[edit]

This article says that the original title was in Spanish. Is the whole text in Spanish ? Or in both Spanish and English ? -- Beardo (talk) 23:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]