Practice question
A company receives a lawful permit to extract specified resources under a regulatory agreement. It claims that the permit transferred ownership of every resource in the area and removed the State's constitutional control. The agreement contains no lawful basis for that sweeping claim. Which assessment follows Article XII, section 2?
- Every extraction permit repeals State ownership.
- The permitted activity does not itself establish blanket private ownership or eliminate the State's full control and supervision of resource development.
- Natural resources become private merely because extraction is costly.
- Company equipment determines ownership of the entire area.
- The State loses all authority after any permit is signed.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XII, sections 2–3, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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