1952年7月25日批准的宪法，其中包括波多黎各的成文法律和政府运作的细节，其中还包括一项权利法案。波多黎各包括许多不同的政党，但在波多黎各最受欢迎的两个政党是新进步党和人民民主党，这两个政党在波多黎各都拥有约47%的选票。行政权由波多黎各总督领导，立法权和决定权由波多黎各立法议会决定，岛上的司法权由波多黎各最高法院组成。波多黎各政府官员每四年由普选产生和决定，波多黎各政府成员经参议院批准后选举产生，这与美国在自己国家的运作方式非常相似。
The citizens of Puerto Rico do not pay a federal income tax even if they are a United States Citizen and Puerto Rico has many styles of welfare programs like disability and aid to the elderly that Puerto Rican citizens have to pay local taxes to Puerto Rico that funds the Social Security and Medicare policies of Puerto Rico. The United States is very important to Puerto Rico and plays a huge role in Puerto Rico’s success in their economy. In Puerto Rico’s economy, sugar production and manufacturing and tourism and many different American investors from the United States creating and starting businesses in Puerto Rico have really dominated the economy of Puerto Rico. The United States influences many of the economic decisions and the decisions on foreign affairs and trading with other countries while Puerto Rico does get their control of their own internal affairs on the island. Puerto Rico has no military of its own so their military is run by the United States but Puerto Rico does have their own National Guard and their own state defense. All of the people born on Puerto Rican soil the year 1941 and beyond are considered American citizens born in the United States.
波多黎各公民即使是美国公民也不缴纳联邦所得税，波多黎各有许多福利项目，如残疾和老年人援助，波多黎各公民必须向波多黎各缴纳地方税，为波多黎各的社会保障和医疗保险政策提供资金。本篇essay认为美国对波多黎各非常重要，在波多黎各经济的成功中发挥着巨大作用。在波多黎各的经济中，食糖生产、制造业和旅游业以及许多来自美国的不同美国投资者在波多黎各创建和创业，真正主导了波多黎各的经济。美国影响了许多经济决策以及与其他国家的外交和贸易决策，而波多黎各确实控制了岛上自己的内政。波多黎各没有自己的军队，所以他们的军队由美国管理，但波多黎各确实有自己的国民警卫队和国防部。1941年及以后出生在波多黎各领土上的所有人都被视为出生在美国的美国公民。
During the year 1917, the Jones Act was finally signed into law which was very important to the people of Puerto Rico and this ended up grating citizenship to all of the Puerto Rican people and they finally were able to say they were citizens of the United States after many years of trying very hard and protesting for this to happen. Puerto Rico had to deal with many issues at the time which included poverty and overpopulation throughout the whole island of Puerto Rico so America had to help in a major way. In 1946, the first governor of Puerto Rico Jesus Pinero was selected by the United States to serve his people the right and safe way and the current governor of Puerto Rico now is Ricardo Rossello. The policies introduced to Puerto Rico included advanced and modern programs and America now brought their money to the island which ended up bringing employment and opportunities to the Puerto Rican people for hundreds of years in the future. In 2011, former President Barack Obama made a visit to Puerto Rico and The United Nations made a new law that was to tell the United States to give Puerto Rico a new way and a new easy process to let the people of Puerto Rico use their rights and to make sure Puerto Rico has their own freedom and laws on their island. The United States ended up making a major decision and that said the United States Constitution does not give the United States any right to change anything about the territories the United States had control of during the time period and this goes for all of their territories they control so their territories will remain untouched. The status of the Puerto Rican relationship with the United States will be very different and new for the oncoming years due to decisions made and some of the Puerto Rican people wanting to become the 51st state of the United States and others wanting to leave the United States Commonwealth. Puerto Rico will be a big part of America now and for many more years to come because Puerto Rico was an island that the United States wanted to help back then and Puerto Rico is still a place that the United States is helping out now. The United States of America will make sure that Puerto Rico is a strong and safe and very happy and successful place where many citizens ca
