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Practice question: Strict Scrutiny Test

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Under the strict scrutiny formulation in SPARK, what level of governmental interest must justify the challenged classification?
  1. A compelling State interest.
  2. Any imaginable administrative convenience.
  3. Only a trivial private preference.
  4. A purpose unrelated to the classification.
  5. A merely popular slogan without an identified public interest.

Legal references

  • SPARK v. Quezon City, G.R. No. 225442, August 8, 2017, main decision, strict scrutiny: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/63300

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