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Puerto Rico
(Commonwealth Associated with the United States)



CONSTITUTION

* Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Angel M. Villamil RodrÃguez) in English
* Constituci€n del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (Rama Judicial de Puerto Rico) in Spanish
* International Constitutional Law: Puerto Rico (Universitât Bern Institut f?r ˜ffentliches Recht) offers background information and links

EXECUTIVE

* Gobernador de Puerto Rico
* Government
* Oficina del Contralor de Puerto Rico
* Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration
* Departmento de Transportacion y Obras Publicas

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JUDICIAL

* Supreme Court - includes decisions from 1998 in RTF; see also LEXJURIS, MICROJURIS, and Publicaciones JTS
* Tribunal General de Justica de Puerto Rico - includes information in Spanish about the Supreme Court, Superior Courts, and Municipal Courts; and leyes y reglamentos
* U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (U.S. Courts)
* U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (Emory Law School) November 1995-
* U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (FindLaw) November 1995-
* U.S. District Court, Puerto Rico - includes rules, forms, bar admission, the Pro Se Litigant Guidebook and other court information

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LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Senado / Senate
* U.S. House of Representatives:
o Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortu“o
o Committee on Resources
* United States Code:
o 48 U.S.C.?731 et seq. (U.S. House of Representative)
o 48 U.S.C.?731 et seq. (U.S. Government Printing Office)
o 48 U.S.C.?731 et seq. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
* Rules of the U.S. House (U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk) includes Rule III: The Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in PDF and Text


LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* Biblioteca JurÃdica Puertorrique“a (Evelyn Ortiz)
* Doing Business in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company)
* Elections in Puerto Rico / Elecciones en Puerto Rico (Manuel °lvarez-Rivera, ElectionResources.org)
* Environmental Briefs (McConnell Valdes)
* LEXJURIS in Spanish
* MICROJURIS - Puerto Rico
* McConnell Valdes: Publications
* STATEHOOD / SELF-DETERMINATION:
o CRS Report 97-526 - Puerto Rico: A Chronology of Political Status History - available to the public via Counting California
o Hearing on H.R. 4751, Puerto Rico-United States Bilateral Pact of Non-Territorial Permanent Union and Guaranteed Citizenship Act (U.S. Committee on Resources) Committee Print, Serial No. 107-C, October 4, 2000.
* Publicaciones JTS
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS:
o Guide: U.S. States & Territories: Legal Links (Law Library of Congress)
o American Law Sources On-line: Puerto Rico
o FindLaw: Puerto Rico
o Georgetown University Law Library: Puerto Rico
o LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center: Puerto Rico (University of Texas at Austin)
o LexisOne: Puerto Rico



GENERAL SOURCES

* Portals to the World: Puerto Rico (Library of Congress)
* Government on the WWW: Puerto Rico (Gunnar Anzinger)
* Human Rights in Puerto Rico (Amnesty International)
* Biblioteca Nacional - Instituto de Cultura Puertorrique“a
* Puerto Rico Libraries (LIBCAT)
* NEWS: El Nuevo DÃa Interactivo
* State and Local Government on the Net: Puerto Rico (State Local Gov)
* World Factbook: Puerto Rico (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Puerto Rico (Google); Puerto Rico (Yahoo)