The Government of the Philippine Islands: Its Development and Fundamentals

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Lawyers co-operative publishing Company, 1916 - Broj stranica: 794
 

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A government of laws and not of men
116
Division of powers
117
Delegation of powers
118
Irrepealable laws prohibited
119
Legislative privileges
120
Rule of the majority
121
Law of public officers
122
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
CHAPTER 5
166
American Philippine policy 80 Outline of present administration
167
Municipal ordinances and resolutions Socalled Unwritten
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
Law of primogeniture 152 Polygamy 153 Appropriations 154 Indebtedness
425
CHAPTER 10
668
APPENDIX
724
PHILIPPINE AUTONOMY ACT pp 741763
741
PRESPANISH GOVERNMENT
775

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