Article 3: Bill of Rights

Just Compensation Fair Market Value 2 Agencies BIR Bureau of internal Revenue BOC Bureau of Costumes 1. What are the 3 inherit powers of the government 1. Police Power 2. Power of Eminent Domain power of the government to use or to take private property. 3. Power of Taxation power of the government to collect taxes from the people. 2. Basic importance of Bill of Rights To protect the citizens from any unlawful intrusions by the government 3. Understanding about Rights Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlements to perform certain actions, or to be in certain states. 4. Three classifications of rights 1. Natural Rights. They are those rights possessed by every citizen without being granted by the State for they are given to man by God as a human being created to His image so that they may live a happy life. Examples are the right to life, the right to liability, the right to property, and the right to love. 2. Constitutional Rights. They are those rights which are conferred and protected by the Constitution. Since they are part of the fundamental law, they cannot be modified or taken away the law making body. 3. Statutory Rights. They are those rights which are provided by laws promulgated by the law-making body and consequently, may be abolished by the same body. Examples are the right to receive a minimum wage and the right to adopt a child by an unrelated person. SECTION 1 Aspect of due process of law 1. Procedural due process refers to the method or matter by which the law is enforced. 2. Substantive due process requires that the law itself, not merely the procedures by which the law would be enforced, is fair, reasonable and just. Purpose of due process of law 1. To prevent increment against individuals life, liberty and property 2. To prevent arbitrary exercise for governmental powers 3. To prevent unjustified confiscation of properties Life as protected by due process of law means something more than mere animal existence. Liberty as protected by due process of law denotes not merely freedom from physical restraint. Property as protected by due process of law may refer to the thing itself or to the right over a thing. 1. Meaning of due process of law? A law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. 2. Is Right to life, liberty and property an absolute right 3. What is equal protection of the law means? All persons must be treated alike. SECTION 2 1. What is warrant of arrest? It is the command to arrest a person designated to take him into custody in order that he may be bound to answer for the commission of the offense. 2. What is search warrant? It is an order in writing, issued in the name of the People of the Philippines. 3. What are its prerequisites before 4. What is probable cause? 5. What are the instances/ exceptional case when warrant of arrest is not needed? SECTION 3 1. What are the instances when privacy of communication and correspondents can be violated? 2. What do you think about the Garci Tape? Can it be used as evidence to GMA against the law? Yes. The Garci tapes are a violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Act in the light of our jurisprudence on right to public information vis--vis rights to privacy, and therefore can be used in evidence subject to the evidentiary rules on Electronic Evidence. SECTION 4 1. What do you mean by freedom of speech? Is this an absolute right?

The right to freedom of speech is not absolute right because the right is commonly subject to limitations, as with libel, slander, obscenity, copyright violation and incitement to commit a crime.