Precedents: A Case for Post-Independence Advocacy (Boston, MA:
 Northeastern University School of Law, 1984).

 7. Everyone's United Nations, 308.

 8. The most important resolutions are 1514 (XV), "Declaration on the
 granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples" (1960)
 and 1541 (XV), "Principles which should guide members in
 determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the
 information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter" (1960). Both
 are reprinted in General Assembly, Resolutions Adopted by the
 General Assembly during its Fifteenth Session. Volume I (New York:
 United Nations, 1961).

 9. See "Evolution of a Legal Fiction", reprinted in the appendix of this
 publication.

10. For a full legal discussion of the Insular Cases, see Juan R. Torruella,
 The Supreme Court and Puerto Rico: The Doctrine of Separate and
 Unequal (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de
 Puerto Rico, 1985). Torruella, a federal appeals court judge, notes:

 The Supreme Court of the United States
 has decided few cases in which the rights
 of a whole class of United States citizens
 have been as fundamentally affected as
 they were by the Insular Cases. These
 decisions stand at a par with Plessy v.
 Ferguson in permitting disparate
 treatment by the government of a discrete
 group of citizens, in this case, as
 distinguished from Plessy in which race
 was the invidious factor, solely by reason
 of their residency in certain territories
 which 'belong to but are not part of the
 United States'. Yet even after the
 reversal of Plessy by Brown v. Board of
 Education, the Supreme Court continues
 to cling to these anachronistic remnants
 of the stone age of American
 Constitutional law not with standing that
 the doctrines espoused by the Insular
 Cases seriously curtail the rights of
 several million citizens and nationals of
 the United States." 3-4.