Statement at Interior and Insular Affairs Committee hearing Commonwealth Status: Why it most be retained and improved by Jaime Benítez. May 22, 1986

Abstract

As a concerned citizen and life-long student of the ups and downs in our 88 years of relations with the United States-I wish to reaffirm one basic premise: Commonwealth status is the most significant contribution to democracy in our joint political history. Its provides the flexibilities, safeguards and the mutual advantages we pave learned to regard as essential to our continued development in a creative, democratic and workable association with the United...