Practice question
Congress proposes a public-land disposition law authorizing private corporations to buy unpatented agricultural parcels directly from the public domain. Supporters emphasize that the land is agricultural and therefore alienable, and that the buyers are wholly Filipino-owned. Which constitutional problem remains?
- Filipino ownership makes every corporate acquisition valid
- Private corporations may hold these alienable public lands only by the constitutionally permitted lease, not the proposed ownership acquisition
- Agricultural classification is constitutionally meaningless
- All agricultural public land must remain forever unusable
- The Constitution requires foreign buyers instead
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XII, Section 3.
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