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Practice question: Scope and Limitations

Essay Hard Jurisprudence

Practice question

A lecturer treats returning to one’s own country, changing residence and every outbound journey as a single undifferentiated right. Identify the distinction made in Marcos v. Manglapus without extrapolating a general power to exclude any citizen.

Legal references

  • Marcos v. Manglapus, G.R. No. 88211, September 15, 1989, main decision, distinction between travel and return to one’s country: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1989/sep1989/gr_88211_1989.html
  • 1987 Constitution, Article III, Section 6: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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