Practice question
A local official invokes social justice to take a private workplace for public use without any lawful acquisition process or just compensation. No constitutional exception is established. Does the policy by itself eliminate ArticleIII Section9?
- No; the social-justice commitment must be applied consistently with the just-compensation guarantee
- Yes; the phrase social justice repeals every property guarantee
- Yes; an official’s declaration is itself payment
- Yes; workers automatically own every enterprise asset
- Yes; public use makes compensation universally unnecessary
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ArticleII Section10; ArticleXIII Sections1–2; ArticleIII Section9.
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