Practice question
A statute orders detention of a person solely for failure to pay a private contractual debt. The facts stipulate no fraud, contempt or other offense. What is the direct constitutional objection?
- All contractual duties are unconstitutional
- Civil debts become crimes whenever Congress wishes
- The creditor must personally serve the sentence
- Only foreign creditors may seek imprisonment
- Article III forbids imprisonment for debt
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article III, Section 20.
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