Treason can only be committed during times of war. It is a war crime punished by the state to defend itself. The law of treason remains dormant during peace but is harshly enforced once war begins to prevent sabotage from traitors. Allegiance is the duty owed by citizens to the protecting state in return for its protection. The idea that sovereignty or allegiance could be suspended during an enemy occupation goes against the Philippine constitution.
Treason can only be committed during times of war. It is a war crime punished by the state to defend itself. The law of treason remains dormant during peace but is harshly enforced once war begins to prevent sabotage from traitors. Allegiance is the duty owed by citizens to the protecting state in return for its protection. The idea that sovereignty or allegiance could be suspended during an enemy occupation goes against the Philippine constitution.
Treason can only be committed during times of war. It is a war crime punished by the state to defend itself. The law of treason remains dormant during peace but is harshly enforced once war begins to prevent sabotage from traitors. Allegiance is the duty owed by citizens to the protecting state in return for its protection. The idea that sovereignty or allegiance could be suspended during an enemy occupation goes against the Philippine constitution.
Treason can only be committed during times of war. It is a war crime punished by the state to defend itself. The law of treason remains dormant during peace but is harshly enforced once war begins to prevent sabotage from traitors. Allegiance is the duty owed by citizens to the protecting state in return for its protection. The idea that sovereignty or allegiance could be suspended during an enemy occupation goes against the Philippine constitution.
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TREASON (Article 114) Allegiance is that duty which is due from function in the country.
But the idea
every citizen to the state, a political duty cannot have any place under our Treason is a war crime. It is not an all- binding on him who enjoys the protection Constitution. If sovereignty is an essential time offense. It cannot be committed in of the Commonwealth, to render service attribute of our people, according to the peace time. While there is peace, there and fealty to the federal government. It is basic philosophy of Philippine democracy, are no traitors. Treason may be incubated that duty which is reciprocal to the right of it could not have been suspended during when peace reigns. Treasonable acts protection, arising from the political the enemy occupation. Sovereignty is the may actually be perpetrated during relations between the government and very life of our people, and there is no peace, but there are no traitors until war the citizen. Wallace vs. Harmstad, 44 Pa. such thing as "suspended life." There is has started. (8 Wright), 492, 501. no possible middle situation between life and death. Sovereignty is the very As treason is basically a war crime, it is due from all men born within the King's essence of the personality and existence punished by the state as a measure of dominions immediately upon their birth, of our people. Can anyone imagine the self-defense and self-preservation. The for immediately upon their birth they are possibility of "suspended personality" or law of treason is an emergency measure. under the King's protection. Natural "suspended existence" of a people? In no It remains dormant until the emergency allegiance is perpetual, and for this time during enemy occupation have the arises. But as soon as war starts, it is reason, evidently founded on the nature Filipino people ceased to be what they relentlessly put into effect. Any lukewarm of government. are. attitude in its enforcement will only be consistent with national harakiri. All war Allegiance. — The tie which binds the The idea of suspended sovereignty or efforts would be of no avail if they should citizen to the government, in return for the suspended allegiance is incompatible be allowed to be sabotaged by fifth protection which the government affords with our Constitution. columnists, by citizens who have sold him. The duty which the subject owes to their country out to the enemy, or any the sovereign, correlative with the other kind of traitors, and this would protection received. certainly be the case if he law cannot be enforced under the theory of suspension. To those who think that sovereignty is an attribute of government, and not of the Allegiance has been defined as the people, there may be some plausibility in obligation for fidelity and obedience which the proposition that sovereignty was the individual owes to his government or suspended during the enemy occupation, his sovereign in return for the protection with the consequence that allegiance which he receives. must also have been suspended, because our government stopped to