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ANACLETO D. BADOY,JR., paragraph and click here to
petitioner, vs. JAIME N. FERRER, copy the selected text. Citation
Chairman, CESAR MIRAFLOR,and included.
LINO M. PATAJO, Members,
Commission on Elections,
respondents.
VOL. 35, OCTOBER 2
Citation: 35 SCRA 285 17, 1970
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1. to prevent election excesses
are education and punishment
for violations of the law, not ANACLETO D. BADOY,J
abridgment or sterilization of the
rights of free speech, free press
petitioner, vs. JAIME
and free association. 14. The FERRER, Chairm
present election for delegates CESAR MIRAFLOR,a
who will rewrite or amend our
Constitution is of the greatest LINO M. PATAJ
significance and it is vital that Members, Commission
the people take the greatest
interest and enjoy the fullest
Elections, respondents.
freedom to know the candidates,
their concrete proposals for
amendments and the interests No. L-32551. October 17
that support them. Thus the 1970.
delegates elected may be worthy
of the people’s trust and after
their work is done, may say, as ANACLETO D. BADOY,J
Recto did in 1935, that “it was as
perfect as any human institution
petitioner, vs. JAIME
can hope to be perfect” with the FERRER, Chairm
injunction
CESAR MIRAFLOR,a
LINO M. PATAJ
2. . 267, 270.] The Constitution
and the statutes are merely Members, Commission
instruments of the sovereign Elections, respondents.
people in their incessant quest
for security and the good life.
There is no permanent sovereign
talisman that will work magic to Constitutional L
usher in the longed for Utopia of Statutes; Electio
Sir Thomas More or the
Shangrila of James Hilton or the
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City of God of St. Augustine. Freedom of Expressi
Man, at best, can only
Underlying principles in Sec.
approximate, for the human
mind is finite and imperfect. (F) of R.A. 6132.—Consist
Once adopted, the Constitution with the opinion expressed
and the statutes are not to
imprison forever in their cast the the cases of Imbong vs. Come
sovereign people, even though and Gonzales vs. Comelec
these organons no longer serve
the people nor their welfare. On
32432 & L-32443, Sept.
this planet Earth, in the 1970), this slight limitation
epigrammatic language of Mr.
the freedom of expression of
Justice Holmes, than whom
greater love hath individual, whether candid
or not, as expressed in par. F
3. which, although of merely Sec 12 is only one of the ma
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