Non-impairment of Contracts

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1. What does Article III, Section 10 expressly prohibit?
2. Which statement about non-impairment and police power follows Ortigas v. Feati?
3. Which situation most directly raises the non-impairment clause's concern?
4. A tenant fails to pay rent under a valid lease. No statute or ordinance has altered either party's obligations. The lan…
5. A lease purports to exempt a warehouse permanently from future fire-safety rules. A later authorized regulation reasona…
6. A statute cancels an identified debtor's accrued payment obligation under an existing valid loan solely to reward a pri…
7. An owner invokes an earlier restrictive covenant against a land use permitted by a later local zoning measure. The fact…
8. Distinguish a private failure to perform a contract from a law impairing contractual obligations. Does Article III, Sec…
9. A lease says that the premises will never be subject to future fire-safety requirements. A later regulation is stipulat…
10. Explain why the state cannot answer every non-impairment challenge merely by calling the challenged measure police powe…
11. According to Ortigas, what existing legal background is ordinarily read into contractual obligations?
12. Under Article XII, Section 11, public-utility franchises are subject to congressional amendment, alteration or repeal w…