Practice question
A ministry invokes the protective principle over a foreign shop's ordinary breach of a private supply contract, identifying no security or fundamental governmental interest and no applicable criminal statute. Is the label alone sufficient?
- Yes; any economic disappointment is automatically a security offense.
- No; the required protective connection and applicable legal basis cannot be supplied by a label.
- Yes; every foreign transaction is protected jurisdiction.
- Yes; private loss always equals an attack on sovereignty.
- Yes; official displeasure is itself a penal statute.
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Article 2: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426
- UNODC, Guide for the Legislative Incorporation and Implementation of Universal Anti-Terrorism Instruments, paragraph 359: https://www.unodc.org/documents/terrorism/Publications/Guide_Legislative_Incorporation_Implementation/English.pdf
- UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Articles 4 and 15: https://mandates.un.org/mandate/A/RES/55/25
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