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9 Tenn. J. L. & Pol'y 433 (2013-2014)
Incorporating the Lonely Star: How Puerto Rico Became Incorporated and Earned a Place in the Sisterhood of States

handle is hein.journals/tjrlp9 and id is 670 raw text is: Spring 20141 Volume 9 1 Issue 3 Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy 433 STUDENT SHOWCASE ARTICLE Incorporating the Lonely Star: How Puerto Rico Became Incorporated and Earned a Place in the Sisterhood of States By: Willie SantanaI In the prosecution of the war against . . Spain by the people of the United States in the cause of liberty, justice, and humanity, its military forces have come to occupy the island of Puerto Rico. They come bearing the banner of freedom .... They bring you the fostering arm of a free people, whose greatest power is in its justice and humanity to all those living within its fold.2 Major General Nelson A. Miles, Commander of U.S. Forces in Puerto Rico, in a proclamation issued in 1898 upon the American invasion of the island. ' Mr. Santana is a third-year law student at the University of Tennessee College of Law and a native of Puerto Rico. He thanks his wife Kara for her support, and Professor Ben Barton for his encouragement and guidance in researching and writing this paper. 2 FRENCH ENSOR CHADWICK, THE RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN: THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, Vol. II, 297 (1911).

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