More On Puerto Rico

As business office of the blog almost our novel book, Fault Lines inwards the Constitution, my married adult woman Cynthia in addition to I convey only posted a discussion almost Puerto Rico.  It doesn't add together rattling much to Gerard's fantabulous post, relieve that nosotros promise that at to the lowest degree about of our audience includes the teenagers to whom our mass is directed in addition to their teachers.  I produce suspect that this volition hold out a decisive 2nd inwards the human relationship betwixt the U.S. of A. of America national authorities in addition to what is forthwith the world's largest remaining colony (defined yesteryear the absence of whatever voting representation inwards the metropolitan government, unlike, for example, the French territories).  One tin rate the axe exclusively imagine what would hold out happening if Puerto Rico, which is the same population roughly every bit Connecticut, had that state's 2 senators in addition to v members of the House (not to refer vii electoral votes).  I would think, at the rattling least, that events of the yesteryear calendar week convey weakened the attraction of Commonwealth status, in addition to I volition hold out curious, should this plough out to hold out the case, if the defectors back upwards statehood or independence (or, of course, independence should a bigoted Congress spend upwards statehood because the dominant linguistic communication of Puerto Rico is Spanish.  And, of course, it would hold out extremely interesting, to pose it mildly, to encounter what the reply of the U.S. of A. of America would hold out to a really serious secessionist displace patterned later 1776.