While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Korea, “champion[ing] liberty wherever the tyranny of communism is the aggressor,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Truman signs house joint resolution 430, making the Federal enclave of Puerto Rico a “self-governing commonwealth”—without its own military or foreign policy.

       Question: What provision is there in the Constitution for CONgress to establish “self-governing commonwealths?”

       [restored 9/11/2022]

Subsequent Events:

8/7/1953                   8/21/1959                    8/4/1960

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 376.

Harry S. Truman: Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Approving the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14192&st=&st1=

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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