and control" to the government newly elected under the terms of the amended 1901 constitution on 20 May 1902. Cuba removed the Platt Amendment provisions from its constitution on 29 May 1934, as part of a new understanding of relations with the United States under the Good Neighbor policy of the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. At the same time, Cuba and the U.S. replaced their 1903 Treaty of Relations that had committed both countries to the Platt Amendment's requirements. Their new 1934 Treaty of Relations preserved only two elements of the earlier pact: the legality of actions taken by the U.S. in Cuba during its military occupation at the end of the Spanish–American War the lease continued unchanged. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention The delegates to the Constitutional Convention that created the 1901 Constitution were: Domingo Méndez Capote (President) Enrique Villuendas (Secretary) Alfredo Zayas (Secretary) Leopoldo Berriel Pedro Betancourt Antonio Bravo Correso Francisco Carrillo Morales José N. Ferrer Luis Fortún Eliseo Giberga José Miguel Gómez Juan Gualberto Gómez José de Jesús Monteagudo Martín Morúa Delgado Emilio Núñez Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui Joaquín Quilez Miguel Rincón Juan Rius Rivera José Luis Robau Alejandro Rodríguez Velazco Diego Tamayo Eudaldo Tamayo See also Constitution of Cuba References Marquez Sterling, Carlos & Manuel; Historia de la Isla de Cuba; Books & Mas, Inc., Miami, Florida (1996). The Platt Amendmment, the National Archives Online Politics of Cuba Government of Cuba Constitution Cuba Defunct constitutions 1901 documents