AcknowledgementsTable of Cases1 Concepts and StructureI OverviewII Constitutional ComponentsA General Pre-adoption HistoryB Creation ProcessC Governmental Structure and Amendment MechanismsD Substantive ContentE Post-ratification EventsF Recent Constitutional DevelopmentsIII Conceptual FactorsA ColonialismB Democratic TensionC Transformative Progressive and Social ContentIV Integrated Analytical Structure2 Puerto Rico before 1952I A History of Subordination and Authoritarian Antecedents: Spanish Colonialism and Early US DominationII Puerto Rico's Territorial Status Prior to 1952III The Unfulfilled Potential of Puerto Rico's Quest for Social Justice3 The Constitutional Creation ProcessI In the Shadow of ColonialismII Democratic Mechanisms and Majoritarian PreferencesIII An Exercise in, Sometimes, Radical Politics4 The 1952 Constitution (Structure)I A Colonial ConstitutionA General OverviewB Legal ImportationC Cautious CreativityD Legalised SubordinationII The Direct Impact of Colonialism on the Political Structure and Amendment MechanismsIII Democratic Deficits: The Political Structure of the 1952 ConstitutionA Legislative BranchB Executive BranchC Judicial BranchD Political PartiesIV Amendment: Substantive and Procedural LimitationsA Substantive LimitationsB Procedural Limitations5 The 1952 Constitution (Substance)I A Substantive, Progressive, and Social ConstitutionII Human Dignity, Equality, and DiscriminationIII Other Political RightsIV Criminal Procedure GuaranteesV Socioeconomic RightsVI Section 19VII Other Substantive Policy ProvisionsVIII Congressional Anti-socialist Veto and Puerto Rican Colonial Acceptance6 Puerto Rico under the 1952 ConstitutionI IntroductionII A History of Judicial Underenforcement and Nominal Lip ServiceIII The Illusion of Decolonisation, Autonomy, and Sort-of Equal TreatmentIV Democratic Crisis: The New Two-party System, Political Repression, and Armed Struggle7 Recent Developments Regarding the Puerto Rican Constitutional ProjectI Colonialism in the Twenty-first CenturyA Colonialism's Constitutional ComebackB Solving the Territorial Problemi Substantive Alternativesii Procedural Optionsiii Political RealityII The 1952 Constitution's Internal Democratic Blind Spots Finally EmergeA The Puerto Rican Summer of 2019B The Erosion of the Two-party System and Proposals to Democratise the Puerto Rican Constitutional StructureIII The Constitution, Class Struggle, and Police Power During the PandemicIV Final ThoughtsBibliographyIndex