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Various United States presidents have signed executive orders to help define, study, and generate activity regarding the political status of Puerto Rico. Three major orders were the 2005, 2007, and 2011 executive orders to establish the Presidential Task Force on the Status of Puerto Rico. ==2005 Presidential Task Force Report== In December 2005, a Report〔(PuertoRico Booklet 1 )〕 by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status asserted that the Constitution of the United States does not allow for a mechanism "to bind future Congresses to any particular arrangement for Puerto Rico as a Commonwealth" without an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.〔 The report also stated that Puerto Rico's current status "does not meet the criteria for any of the options for full self government."〔 The Report made its determinations based on articles in the U.S. Constitution regarding territories. Prominent leaders in Puerto Rico's pro-independence political movements agreed with this assessment. Leaders in the pro-statehood political movements also agreed with the assessment. The Legislative Branch, then controlled by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), supported the White House report's conclusions and has supported bills introduced by Congressmen José Serrano (D-NY) and Luis Fortuño (R-PR) and Senators Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Mel Martinez (R-FL) to provide for a democratic referendum process among Puerto Rico voters. The Popular Democratic Party (PPD), on the other hand, announced a commitment to challenge the Task Force report and validate the current status in all international forums including the United Nations. It also rejected any "colonial or territorial status" as a status option, and vowed to keep working for the enhanced Commonwealth status that was approved by the PPD in 1998, which included sovereignty, an association based on "respect and dignity between both nations", and common citizenship.〔(Independence Hearing ) by the ''Puerto Rico Herald''.〕 The task force recommendations were rejected by the former governor of Puerto Rico Anibal Acevedo Vilá on a letter on January 24, 2006, who condemned the report and rejected "any efforts to turn the task force's recommendations into Congressional legislation." The former governor, among others, argued that the "Commonwealth" or, in some cases, "Enhanced Commonwealth" constructs are legitimate non-territorial options under U. S. constitutional and statutory law."〔 〕 In a letter sent by then-governor Acevedo-Vilá to the former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and the Bush Administration Co-Chairs of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status, the former governor stated〔(Prensa Latina, Nestor Rosa-Marbrell, November 20, 2007 ) (archived from (the original ) on April 5, 2008)〕〔(''El Gobernador pide a Rice que enmiende el informe sobre el estatus político de P.Rico''; Yahoo News; November 19, 2007 ) (archived from (the original ) on January 10, 2008)〕 that "if the Task Force and the Bush Administration stand by their 2005 conclusions, then for over 50 years the U.S Government has perpetuated a 'monumental hoax' on the people of Puerto Rico, on the people of the United States and on the international community. If the 2005 report articulates the new official position of the United States, the time has come now for the State Department to formally notify the United Nations of this new position and assume the international legal consequences. You cannot have a legal and constitutional interpretation for local, political purposes and a different one for the international community."〔(Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá's letter ) to U.S. President George W. Bush's President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status (formally addressed to the Co-Chairs of the Bush Administration's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status); October 23, 2007; retrieved December 26, 2007. (archived from (the original ) on February 16, 2008)〕 On January 4, 2006, then-governor Vilá and the Popular Democratic Party challenged the task force report with a resolution that denounced the task force as a political fraud and threat to democracy, and called the report's conclusion a violation of the basic agreements held between the people of Puerto Rico and the United States since 1952.〔(Current News about Puerto Rico's political status ).〕〔 (PPD Party Resolution #2006-02 ).〕〔(A Monumental Fraud )〕 A bill supporting the PPD's position was introduced in the United States Senate on February 16, 2006, by two senators who have traditionally been identified with Puerto Rico, Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and two senators whose interest in matters related to Puerto Rico was up to then unknown, Senators Richard Mauze Burr (R-NC) and Chester Trent Lott.〔(S.2304, A bill to recognize the right of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to call a constitutional convention through which the people of Puerto Rico would exercise their right to self-determination, and to establish a mechanism for congressional consideration of such decision. Sponsored by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Richard Mauze Burr (R-NC), and Chester Trent Lott, Sr. (R-MS). February 16, 2006. ) Retrieved December 6, 2009.〕 Since its introduction, however, the bill did not attract any other co-sponsors. A bipartisan Senate bill supporting the implementation of the White House report recommendations was filed by Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Ken Salazar (D-CO) and co-sponsored by 14 other Democratic and Republican senators, including Daniel Akaka (), Evan Bayh (), Samuel Brownback (), Thomas Carper (), Norm Coleman (), Larry Craig (), Charles Hagel (), Daniel Inouye (), John Kerry (), Mary Landrieu (), John McCain (), Ben Nelson (), Bill Nelson () and Ted Stevens ().〔(S. 2661 ), (govtrack.us ).〕 * (''Report By the President's Task Force On Puerto Rico's Status (December 2005) - President George W. Bush.'' ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Presidential executive orders on the political status of Puerto Rico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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