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But make its people citizens now, and you have already made it, potentially, a State.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgBut make its people citizens now, and you have already made it, potentially, a State.
Reid posits that granting citizenship to Porto Rico could lead to its potential statehood.
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