Midterm Exam_PG

Set of prescriptions setting forth the fundamental civil and political rights of the individual, and imposing limitations on the powers of government as a means of securing the enjoyment of those rights.

• Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Political Rights

Rights which municipal law will enforce at the instance of private individuals, for the purpose of securing them the enjoyment of their means of happiness.

• Political Rights

• Civil Rights

• Human Rights

All persons or things similarly situated must be similarly treated both as to rights conferred and responsibilities imposed.

• Equal protection of laws

• Due Process of Law

• Substantive Due Process

The right to form, or join, unions or associations, includes the right not to join or, if one is already a member, to disaffiliate from the association.

• Right of association

• Right of disaffiliation

• Right of cooperation

The inherent and plenary power in the State which enables it to prohibit all that is hurtful to the comfort, safety and welfare of society.

• police power

• eminent domain

• taxation

The ultimate right of sovereign power to appropriate, not only the public, but even private property of all citizens within the territorial sovereignty, to public purposes.

 

• eminent domain

• taxation

• police power

The inherent legislative power by which the sovereign raises income to defray the necessary expenses of the government.

• taxation

• police power

• eminent domain

Consists of the provisions pointing out the mode or procedure in accordance with which formal changes in the fundamental law may be brought about.

• Constitution of Sovereignty

• Constitution of Liberty

• Constitution

Whenever possible, the words used in the Constitution must be given their ordinary meaning except where technical terms are employed.

• Verba Legis

• Dura lex

• Ut magis valeat quam pereat

The power of the state to rule within its territory.

• Internal sovereignty

• external sovereignty

• independence