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Practice question: Social Justice (Art. II)

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A legislative committee proposes a development package containing worker training, wider access to employment and measures against severe economic inequality. A critic says social justice permits only distributing cash after litigation and cannot support opportunity-creating measures. Which is the best response?
  1. Social justice forbids employment initiatives
  2. Only courts may consider inequality
  3. Freedom of initiative is incompatible with social justice
  4. The Constitution expressly includes creating economic opportunities based on initiative and self-reliance within social justice
  5. Every development expenditure is automatically constitutional

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article II, Section 10; Article XIII, Sections 1–2: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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