Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/48/1561
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U.S. Code › Title 48 › Chapter 12 › Subchapter II › § 1561 48 U.S. Code § 1561 - Rights and prohibitions
§ 1561.
Rights and prohibitions
No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assembly [1] and petition the government for the redress of grievances.
The following provisions of and amendments to the Constitution of the United States are hereby extended to the Virgin Islands to the extent that they have not been previously extended to that territory and shall have the same force and effect there as in the United States or in any State of the United States: article I, section 9, clauses 2 and 3; article IV, section 1 and section 2, clause 1; article VI, clause 3; the first to ninth amendments inclusive; the thirteenth amendment; the second sentence of section 1 of the fourteenth amendment; and the fifteenth and nineteenth amendments: Provided, however, That all offenses against the laws of the United States and the laws of the Virgin Islands which are prosecuted in the district court pursuant to sections [2] 1612(a) and (c) of this title may be had by indictment by grand jury or by information, and that all offenses against the laws of the Virgin Islands which are prosecuted in the district court pursuant to section 1612(b) of this title or in the courts established by local law shall continue to be prosecuted by information, except such as may be required by local law to be prosecuted by indictment by grand jury.
All laws enacted by Congress with respect to the Virgin Islands and all laws enacted by the territorial legislature of the Virgin Islands which are inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection 2 are repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 3, 68 Stat. 497; Pub. L. 85–851, § 1, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1094; Pub. L. 90–496, § 11, Aug. 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 841; Pub. L. 98–213, § 5(d), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1460; Pub. L. 98–454, title VII, § 701, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1737.)
[1]  So in original. Probably should be “assemble”.[2]  So in original. Probably should be “section”.
1984—Pub. L. 98–454 substituted provisions to the effect that offenses prosecuted under section 1612(a) and (c) of this title shall be prosecuted by indictment or information while those prosecuted under section 1612(b) of this title shall be prosecuted by information only, for provisions which provided that all prosecutions would be by information except where provided otherwise by local laws in the proviso in penultimate par.
1983—Pub. L. 98–213 inserted “article VI, clause 3;” in penultimate par.
1968—Pub. L. 90–496 inserted provisions extending to the Virgin Islands the enumerated provisions of and amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and provisions repealing, to the extent of any inconsistency, all laws enacted by Congress with respect to the Virgin Islands and all laws enacted by the territorial legislature of the Virgin Islands which are inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
1958—Pub. L. 85–851 prohibited political or religious test but required loyalty oath as qualification to any office or public trust.
Pub. L. 90–496, § 11, Aug. 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 841, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective on the date of enactment of Pub. L. 90–496, which was approved Aug. 23, 1968.
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