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The present article is a discourse analysis, that intends to reveal the social constructions of citizenship the State assigns people named with disabilities, and how diversity within the population is acknowledged by means of Law and Public Policy. The social construction of women named with disability, as a possibility of diversity, is particularly analyzed in terms of the opportunities for citizenship it deems possible. A Critical Discourse Analysis is presented with the intention of revealing power relations expressed by the Declaration of Rights for Persons with Disabilities in Puerto Rico. The methodology was used as an attempt to explore how this legislation, in it's intention of providing recognition of people named with disabilities as citizens, exeludes this part of the population from general citizenship, referring to a special and sepárate category of citizenship, and what this implies. Furthermore, explores the possible production within contemporary discourse, and the texts of the legislation, of people named with disabilities as citizens. It also addresses the means by which law and latter publie policy that derives from it, promotes or is an obstacle to exercising civil rights for people that have, by being named with disabilities, become socially vulnerable. This vulnerability is produced through words that constitute general social narratives.