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	<title>Crucians In Focus &#187; Constitution</title>
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		<title>Constitutional Resolution Returns Through The Delegate &#8211; Will The Convention Reconvene?</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/07/11/constitutional-resolution-returns-through-the-delegate-will-the-convention-reconvene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Draft Constitution crafted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention is coming back to the Virgin Islands – but not as originally expected.
Reports now are that the Joint Resolution passed by the Senate last week will not be transmitted with the signature of President Barack Obama – but will be returned to the Territory through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Constitution On Its Way Back To Territory For Reconsideration</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/06/30/draft-constitution-on-its-way-back-to-territory-for-reconsideration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The draft Virgin Islands Constitution is on its way back to the Territory with direction from the US Congress to reconvene the Constitutional Convention and revise the provisions deemed questionable because of their conflict with the US Constitution.
On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a Joint Resolution (SJ 33, attached) that “urges the Fifth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local GOP Official Asks Congress To Amend Draft Constitution</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/05/22/local-gop-official-asks-congress-to-amend-draft-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/05/22/local-gop-official-asks-congress-to-amend-draft-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Editorial by Herbert Schoenbohm
(Editor&#8217;s note: The following is a letter sent by Mr. Schoenbohm to Senator Murkowski, the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee of Energy and Natural Resources, regarding the presented V.I. constitutional draft discussed Wednesday in a hearing in Washington.  Schoenbohm is the State Chairman of the Virgin Islands Republican party. The Constitution is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Hears Both Sides Of Constitutional Debate</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/03/19/congress-hears-both-sides-of-constitutional-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a powerful endorsement of the draft Virgin Islands Constitution that the Congress heard on Wednesday from those who spoke in support from the Fifth Constitutional Convention.
If you listened – and we did – twice – and whatever your opinion – you heard a sound, historically supported argument for the key point of contention [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mapp Responds To Petersen&#8217;s Stand On Draft Constitution</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/03/19/mapp-responds-to-petersens-stand-on-draft-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/03/19/mapp-responds-to-petersens-stand-on-draft-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Editor’s Note: During Wednesday&#8217;s presentation to the United States Congress on the Virgin Islands draft Constitution, Convention Delegate Eugene “Doc” Petersen, who voted against the document, encouraged the Congress to amend the document and remove a number of provisions relating to native and ancestral native Virgin Islander rights.  Petersen stated that inclusion of these provisions would  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Submits Draft  VI Constitution To US Congress</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/03/03/president-obama-submits-draft-vi-constitution-to-us-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/03/03/president-obama-submits-draft-vi-constitution-to-us-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[overeignty, status and native rights are the major areas of review for the US Congress as they evaluate the draft Virgin Islands Constitution submitted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention. 
The draft was submitted to Congress by President Barack Obama on February 26, 2010, and Congress has 60 days to review the document and make its recommendations.
Hearings on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court To Gov.: Submit the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/12/28/court-to-gov-submit-the-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/12/28/court-to-gov-submit-the-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor deJongh, forward the Constitution, as submitted, to President Barack Obama. Period.
That’s the court order in the latest round of legal battles concerning the submission of the document drafted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention.
Superior Court Judge Darryl D. Donahue, Sr., signed the order on December 23, giving the Governor ten business days to forward the document to Washington, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redfield Voices Position On Constitution</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/07/redfield-voices-position-on-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/07/redfield-voices-position-on-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redfield Editorial #70 &#8211; Constitution Convention

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		<title>Delegate Emanuel Provides Further Supporting Documentation</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/03/delegate-emanuel-provides-further-supporting-documentation/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/03/delegate-emanuel-provides-further-supporting-documentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following text and documents were received from 5th Constitutional Convention Delegate Gerard M. Emanuel:
Attached are two documents that provided U.S. Citizenship en masse to Native Virgin Islanders in 1927 and in 1940. They are being provided on this website because they served as the principal legal source and basis for the definitions of V.I. Natives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Constitution of the 5th Constitutional Convention</title>
		<link>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/01/final-constitution-of-the-5th-constitutional-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://cruciansinfocus.com/2009/06/01/final-constitution-of-the-5th-constitutional-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crucians In Focus invites the public to review and comment on the attached Final Constitution of the 5th Constitutional Convention which was approved on May 26, 2009 at The Drive In (Estate Grove Place, St. Croix).
Final Constitution of the 5th Constitutional Convention
Table of Contents (only)
The document has been forwarded to the governor who has 10 [...]]]></description>
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