The Bahamas. At 5,359 square miles in area, the 700-island chain of the Bahamas (bahamas.com) is larger than Puerto Rico and Jamaica; however, these islands are in the Atlantic Ocean, not the Caribbean Sea.Cubaâs location blocks this chain's access to the waters of the Caribbean.amaica. With a total area of 4,244 square miles, Jamaica (visitjamaica.com) is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean. However, its total land area of 4,181 square miles is larger than Puerto Rico's land area.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery as a legal institution. 1  Comments. 2  Report.
â Amendment 10. The Tenth Amendment expresses the principle that undergirds the entire plan of the original Constitution: the national government possesses only those powers delegated to it. The Framers of the Tenth Amendment had two purposes in mind when they drafted it.The first was a necessary rule of construction.ence, the Tenth Amendmentâa rule of construction that warns against interpreting the other amendments in the Bill of Rights to imply powers in the national government that were not granted by the original document.