The Government of the Philippine Islands: Its Development and Fundamentals

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Lawyers co-operative publishing Company, 1916 - 794 páginas
 

Índice

Nation defined Government
11
Administration defined
12
Terms distinguished
13
Necessity of government 14 Forms of government
14
The government of the United States
16
Further classifications 17 Functions of government
17
Purpose of government
20
Tests of a good government 20 Success or failure of government
23
Why government studied
24
The barangay
25
Intergroup relations
26
Social classes
27
Legislation
28
Contents of laws
29
Judicial procedure
30
Defects of organization
31
Degree of civilization
32
Conquest
33
Colonial policy
34
Relations with Spain
35
Laws extended
36
The governorgeneral
37
Central advisory bodies
38
Central administrative agencies
39
40 Provincial administration
40
41 Municipal administration
41
The judiciary
42
Ecclesiastical administration
43
Public finances
44
Commerce
45
Education 47 Public order
46
Filipino participation
48
Course of events under the revolutionary government
56
Parties
57
The dictator and president
58
Cabinets
59
Foreign delegates
60
The Revolutionary Congress
61
The Malolos Constitution
62
Governmental activities
63
Class of government
64
Character of government
65
The socalled Philippine problem
78
Judgment
98
Whether Filipinos are aliens subjects or citizens
101
Status stated CHAPTER 8
102
Terminology
103
The United States Constitution in the Philippines
104
Résumé
105
Laws of express extension
106
Acts of the Philippine Commission
107
Laws of inherent force
108
CHAPTER 4
109
The Philippine bill
110
The Philippine autonomy
111
Other organic laws
112
The Philippine Constitution
113
The Philippine Bill of Rights
114
Interstate comity
123
Aliens
124
Citizenship
125
Immunity of government from suit
126
Taxation eminent domain and police power explained
127
Taxation
128
Eminent domain
129
Police power
130
Various fundamental privileges and immunities
131
Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
133
Ex post facto laws
134
Bills of attainder
135
Excessive bail excessive fines and cruel and unusual punish ments
136
Unreasonable searches and seizures warrants
137
Treason
138
Imprisonment for debt
139
Due process of law and equal protection of the laws
140
Slavery involuntary servitude and peonage
141
Freedom of speech and press assembly and petition
142
Religious liberty
143
Local government
144
Suffrage
145
Education
146
Subject and title of bills
147
The enacting clause
148
Obligation of contracts
149
Titles of nobility presents etc from foreign states
150
Law of primogeniture
151
Polygamy
152
Appropriations
153
Indebtedness
154
Law as here used
155
Sources and development WrittenSpanish
156
Force of laws of former sovereignty
157
Application of rules
158
General orders of the military governors
159
Acts of the Philippine commission
160
Acts of the Philippine Legislature
161
Codification
162
Joint and concurrent resolutions
163
CHAPTER 5
166
American Philippine policy 80 Outline of present administration
167
Municipal ordinances and resolutions
168
English and American common
169
Spanish common
170
Customary
171
Mohammedan
172
Case
173
Legal treatises
174
Government of the Philippine Islands short form Phil ippine Government The Administrative Code of the Philippines legislatively describes The Go...
177
FUNDAMENTAL CHAPTER 6
303
CHAPTER 7
362
CHAPTER 2
420
Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions
424
Executive orders proclamations rules regulations and cir culars 165 Rules of court
668
APPENDIX
724
PHILIPPINE AUTONOMY ACT pp 741763
741
PRESPANISH GOVERNMENT
775

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Página 594 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Página 713 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Página 752 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he may have been elected, be eligible to any office the election to which is vested in the legislature, nor shall be appointed to any office of trust or profit which shall have been created or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term.
Página 744 - No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed¡ No religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights.
Página 437 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control ; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Página 533 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Página 581 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.
Página 332 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Página 316 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 610 - But the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good.

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