Practice question
A national development plan proposes suppressing an indigenous community's language traditions and institutions solely to make all communities culturally identical. Officials claim that unity allows them to ignore the community's cultural rights altogether. Which constitutional assessment is best?
- National planning is categorically outside the Constitution
- Unity requires abolition of cultural diversity in every case
- Cultural rights exist only for communities selected by private donors
- The plan must account for the protected rights to preserve and develop indigenous cultures, traditions and institutions; unity does not authorize ignoring them
- Any administrative plan automatically overrides cultural guarantees
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XIV, Sections 14 and 17.
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