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Father Jaimes Ponce obtained his doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. This work is his doctoral dissertation and is a critical analysis of the jurisprudence of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota and sentences rendered by American Ecclesiastical Tribunals on lack of internal freedom on matrimonial consent. Fr. Ponce discusses the similarities and differences between these two Ecclesiastical courts and reviews some of the deficiencies prevalent in some American Ecclesiastical tribunals regarding their process for granting declarations of nullity.