The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable. EXPLINATION: The Constitution prohibits interference with the free exercise of religion (government can't tell you what religion to practice) and also prohibits the "establishment" of any religion, which means more or less the same thing. The Government may not say you must belong to "the Church of America" the way people had to belong to the Church of England at one time. These two rules have been called by some (including some of the justices on the Supreme Court) "the separation of church and state." However, the Constitution does not prohibit the state from embracing general religious ideas, like "in God we trust." The concept that "the state" may have no religious thought...

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Tags: ARTICLE II, sec. I

The maintenance of peace and order, the protection of life, liberty, and property, and promotion of the general welfare are essential for the enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of democracy. EXPLINATION: Which appears very simple and can be confused as unnecessary is an Ambrosio Padilla provision which states that the following are essential for the employment by all the people of the blessings of democracy: (a) maintainance of peace and order becuase in lawless although open society, people do not feel safe to roam around express freely their ideas, an absence of freedom from fear: (b) protection of life, liberty and propeerty (through effective police functions); and (c) promotion of the general welfare (through effective...

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The prime duty of the Government is to serve and protect the people. The Government may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof, all citizens may be required, under conditions provided by law, to render personal, military or civil service. EXPLINATION: THe government is required to serve and to protect the people. This truly underscores that rule those who administer the Goverment are really the servants of and must be accountable to the people.The people are the masters of they posses and are repository of all government authority and upon whom all sovereignty resides. However, The Government may sommon the people to defen the States and it may, therefore, require its citizens under such conditions...

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Tags: ART.II, Sec 4

Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the State. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory. EXPLINATION: Affirms the supremacy of the civilan authority over the military at all times, evn in a state of emergency or martial law. This is a plain democratic principle design to avoid dictatorship. The states in general role of the military which is to act as protector of the people and the State. Mr Homobono Adaza an dother criticized thi sprovision it does notnot include protection of the govrnment. And what are the elements of the state by the way as we have learned Ploitical Science? They...

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Section 2. The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles of international law as part of the law of the land and adheres to the policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom, cooperation, and amity with all nations. EXPLINATION: At issue in the Balikatan Case was the constitutionaly of the conduct of the joint training exercise, reffered to as Balikatan 02-01, of Us and the Philippine soldiers in the mindanao. Petitioners asked the Supreme Courtto prohibit the excerciseon the ground taht the excercise is not sanctioned by any treaty and is therefore unconstitutional. Undet the Terms of Reference ("TOR") entered into on Febuary 11, 2002 by the Philippines and the United...

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Section I.         The Philippines is a democratic and republican State. Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them. EXPLINATION: When our constitution declares that a right exist s in certain specified circumstances an action may be maintained  to enforce such right notwithstanding the absence of any legislation on the subject; consequently, if there is no statue especially enacted to enforce such constitutional rights, such right enforces by its own inherent potency and puissance, and from which all legislations must take their bearings. Where there a right there is a remedy.It is now declared that the Philippines is not only a republican but also a democratic state....

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Tags: 1987 Philippine constitution, Section.1

NATIONAL TERRITORY The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other submarine areas. The waters around, between, and connecting the islands of the archipelago, regardless of their breadth and dimensions, form part of the internal waters of the Philippines EXPLINATION: The Philippines is composed of more than 7,100 islands and islets lying a little above the equator off the coast of Asia . Its island stretch almost a thousand miles from north...

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