In fact, it would follow as a logical sequence, that if the territorial laws were excluded it would be a place 'under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States,' hence, the laws of the United States would be operative there.
Jacobs posits that the exclusion of territorial laws implies the island falls under U.S. jurisdiction exclusively.
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