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Section 1 1. What is the significance of the bill of rights?

-It is a guarantee that there are certain area of a persons life, liberty and property w/c governmental power may not touch. 2. What powers of the government are limited by the bill of rights? -All the powers 3. What in general are these powers? -Police power, Eminent domain, Taxation 4.What are the rights protected by the Bill of Rights? -Life, Liberty, Property 5. Does the equal protection clause merely prohibit the state from passing discriminatory laws? -No! The clause also commands the state to pass laws w/c positively promote equality or reduce existing inequalities.

Section 2 1.What are the searches and seizures prohibited by these provision? -Unreasonable searches and seizure 2.Is every warrantless searches and seizure unreasonable? -No. There are exception to the rule. 3. Who may determine probable cause for issuing a warrant? -Only a Judge 4. Must proof of probable cause for warrant point to a specific offender? -For search warrant for things, No. For warrant of arrest, Yes. 5. What is the consequence if is invalid or w/o warrant? -It will be inadmissible as evidence.

Section 3 1.What forms of correspondence and communication are covered by this provision? -Letters, Messages, Telephone calls, Telegrams and the like. 2. When is intrusion into the privacy of communication and correspondence allowed? -Upon lawful order of the court , or when public safety or order require as prescribe by law. 3. What is the effect of the violation of this section? -Any evidence obtained shall be inadmissible for any purpose in any proceeding. 4. What is the implementing statute that covers this subject? - RA 4200, Anti wiretapping law. 5. Are firearms w/c have been illegally seized in a zona admissible in evidence? -No! they shall remain in custodia legis, subject to such appropriate disposition as the corresponding courts may decide.

Section 4 1.What do speech, expression, and press include? -Every form of expression, written, oral, tape recorded, movies, even symbolic speech. 2. What is a Commercial speech? -It is communication w/c no more than proposes a commercial transaction. 3. What must be shown in order for government to curtail commercial speech? -It must not be false or misleading and should not propose an illegal transaction. 4. When is defamatory imputation malicious? -When the author of the imputation is prompted by ill-will or spite and speaks not in response to duty but merely to injure the reputation of the person who claims to have been defamed. 5. What does publication in libel mean? -It means making the defamatory matter, after it has been written, known to someone other than the person to whom it has been written.

Section 5 1.What are the two principal parts of section 5? -The non establishment clause and the free exercise clause 2. Does the court have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint about an expulsion or excommunication from a church? -No! It is not for the court to exercise control over church authorities. 3. How do we distinguish a free exercise case from a non-establishment case? -Every violation of the free exercise clause involves compulsion whereas a violation of the non establishment clause need not to involve compulsion. 4. Would it be proper for a public officer to make derogatory remarks about a religious group? -No! No one, much less a public official, is privileged to characterized the actuation of its adherents in a derogatory sense. 5. May the state require a license for the dissemination of religious literature? - No license may be required unless the dissemination is done as a business operation for profit.

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