Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Amnesty in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. The chief of state is the President of the United States of America. The head of government is an elected Governor. There are two legislative chambers: the House of Representatives, 51 seats, and the Senate, 27 seats.
Amnesty is sometimes taken in cosideration in Puerto Rico. Amenesty a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent people.
Puerto Rico has there own laws but its constituion is based on the United States of America. The major differences between Puerto Rico and the 50 states are exemption from some aspects of the Internal Revenue Code, its lack of voting representation in either house of the U.S. Congress.

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