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Practice question: Labor as Primary Social Economic Force (Art. II)

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Practice question

A proposed program supports worker cooperatives as productive enterprises and instruments for social justice. A critic claims the Constitution recognizes labor only as hired labor and therefore forbids this organizational model. Which is correct?
  1. ArticleXII Section15 expressly supports cooperative viability and growth
  2. Every cooperative is constitutionally prohibited
  3. Only the executive may own a cooperative
  4. Social justice is expressly excluded from cooperative policy
  5. A worker must surrender every right to join any cooperative

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ArticleII Sections18,20; ArticleXII Sections12,14–15.

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