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Practice question: Strict Scrutiny Test

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Practice question

What did SPARK say about treating minors’ constitutional rights as less fundamental merely because of age?
  1. Fundamental rights begin only on the eighteenth birthday.
  2. Minors also possess fundamental rights; age does not itself justify a lower scrutiny tier for burdens on those rights.
  3. Minors have no right to travel under any circumstances.
  4. Every minor is outside equal protection.
  5. Age makes all governmental restrictions automatically valid.

Legal references

  • Samahan ng mga Progresibong Kabataan v. Quezon City, G.R. No. 225442, August 8, 2017, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/aug2017/gr_225442_2017.html

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