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Top academics slam Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act Rafael Bernal © Getty Images Top academics slam Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act A group of 47 academics from top U.S. universities lambasted a proposed bill that would determine Puerto Rico s territorial status through a convention process. In a letter sent Monday to a group of bipartisan congressional leaders, the academics, led by Columbia Law School s Christina Ponsa-Kraus, said the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, which was introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), disserves its purported goal perpetuating the pernicious myth that [multiple sovereignty] options exist. They do not. There are two, and only two, real self-determination options for Puerto Rico: statehood and independence. Yet the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act defies constitutional reality by calling upon Puerto Ricans to define other non-territorial options. There are no other non-territorial options, reads the letter,

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