The legal aspects of martial law in the Philippines negotiating between precedents and innovations
The declaration of Martial Law is both a political and legal act. It is political in the sense that the government with the aid of the military assumes control of the whole governmental machinery, that the President exercises extraordinary powers, and that he is not answerable to the courts for the...
| Published in: | Philippine Journal of Public Administration Vol. XXII, no. 3&4 (Jul. 1978 - Oct. 1978), 211-226 |
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| Language: | English |
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1978
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