,,iv  #aafth ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,h4 ,,res4 #fda  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of
 ,,representatives  ,october #ah1       
#bjai,mr4 ,grijalva 7for himself1 ,miss 
,gonzlez-,coln of ,puerto ,rico1 ,mr4   
,san ,nicolas1 ,mr4 ,sablan1 and ,ms4   
,plaskett7 submitted the following      
resolution2 which was referred to the   
,committee on the ,judiciary1 and in    
addition to the ,committee on ,natural  
,resources1 for a period to be          
subsequently determined by the ,speaker1
 in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the           
jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
,,resolution  ,acknowledging that the   
decisions rendered by the ,united       
,states ,supreme ,court in the so-called
 ,insular ,cases rest on the same racist
 and ethnocentric assumptions leading to
 ,plessy v4 ,ferguson's infamous        
separate but equal doctrine1 that the   
legal doctrine emanating from the       
,insular ,cases has no place in ,united 
,states ,constitutional law1 and that   

the ,insular ,cases must be rejected in 
their entirety4  ,whereas the ,spanish  
,kingdom transferred to the ,united     
,states sovereignty over ,puerto ,rico1 
the ,philippine ,islands1 and ,guam     
pursuant to the #ahih ,treaty of ,paris1
 which put an end to the so-called      
,spanish-,american ,war2 ,whereas the   
newly acquired territories were         
non-contiguous archipelagos separated by
 thousands of miles from the ,united    
,states continental mainland and        
inhabited by distinct nationalities made
 up by peoples whose races1 languages1  
cultures1 and religious beliefs set them
 apart from the dominant ,anglo-,saxon  
societal structure then in place in the 
,united ,states2 ,whereas the           
constitutional question of whether the  
,united ,states ,constitution followed  
the ,united ,states flag into these new 
lands was answered by the ,united       
,states ,supreme ,court in a series of  
decisions announced in #aija commonly   
known as the ,insular ,cases2 ,whereas  

the same ,fuller ,court that rendered   
the discredited ,plessy v4 ,ferguson    
decision in #ahif also resolved the     
,insular ,cases2 ,whereas a fractured   
,united ,states ,supreme ,court found   
that the ,united ,states ,constitution  
did not follow the ,united ,states flag 
into these new far-flung possessions2   
,whereas the ,united ,states ,supreme   
,court held that the ,caribbean and     
,pacific possessions were now           
unincorporated territories belonging to 
the ,united ,states but not a part of   
the ,united ,states as that phrase is   
used in the ,uniformity ,clause of the  
,united ,states ,constitution2 ,whereas 
under the ,insular ,cases only those    
rights deemed to be fundamental apply to
 the unincorporated territories2        
,whereas notions of ,anglo-,saxon racial
 and imperialist supremacy1 together    
with the perceived racial and cultural  
inferiority of non-,white peoples1 drove
 the outcome of the ,insular ,cases2    
,whereas in #aijj1 the ,eastern ,samoan 

,islands1 now known as ,american ,samoa1
 transferred its sovereignty to the     
,united ,states2 ,whereas in #aiag1     
,denmark transferred to the ,united     
,states sovereignty of the ,danish ,west
 ,indies1 now known as the ,virgin      
,islands of the ,united ,states2        
,whereas in #aigf1 the ,northern        
,mariana ,islands entered into a        
covenant with the ,united ,states       
establishing the territory's status as a
 self-governing commonwealth in         
political union with the ,united        
,states2 ,whereas the ,insular ,cases   
today negatively impact a community of  
nearly #d1jjj1jjj ,americans living in  
,puerto ,rico1 ,guam1 the ,virgin       
,islands of the ,united ,states1 the    
,commonwealth of the ,northern ,mariana 
,islands1 and ,american ,samoa2 ,whereas
 the doctrine established by the        
,insular ,cases is still used to        
perpetuate the egregious unequal        
treatment of ,united ,states citizens   
and nationals in the territories2       

,whereas jurists and legal scholars have
 recognized that the ,insular ,cases    
rest on reasoning that runs afoul the   
original intent of the framers of the   
,united ,states ,constitution2 and      
,whereas the imperialist and racist     
ideologies underlying the ,insular      
,cases must be rejected3 ,now1          
therefore1 be it  ,that the ,house of   
,representatives-- 7#a7 recognizes the  
importance of supporting equal rights   
and upholding the interests of          
,americans living in the ,united ,states
 territories2  7#b7 acknowledges that   
the ,insular ,cases rest on racist and  
imperialist assumptions that have no    
place in the constitutional landscape of
 the ,united ,states2 and  7#c7 rejects 
the ,insular ,cases and their           
application to all present and future   
cases and controversies4