Practice question
A prosecutor invokes Article141 to punish proposal to commit sedition solely by analogy to its express conspiracy language. No other applicable offense is established. Which is best?
- Conspiracy and proposal always mean the same thing
- Every analogy creates a penal offense
- The prosecutor may freely add proposal to the text
- Article141 specifically penalizes conspiracy; proposal cannot be added solely by analogy, without a separate applicable penal basis
- Every seditious statement is necessarily lawful
Legal references
- RPC Article8; RA10951, Sections8–9: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2017/ra_10951_2017.html
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