Jimmy Carter actually said...

It is therefore wholly appropriate that the electorate of the Virgin Islands, and not the Federal Government, has the ultimate right to accept or reject it.

Context

Territory of the Virgin Islands Message to the Congress Transmitting the Territory's Proposed Constitution

09/19/1978

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