Declaration of Principle and States Policies
Section 1. The Philippines in a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty reside in the people and all government authority emanates from them. * The Philippines, in a democratic because Philippines has a government to have a democracy under the rule of law * The Philippine is become a democratic under the provisional government. After the People Power, President Corazon C. Aquino read the proclamation NO.1 wherein she declared the “taking power in the name and by the will of the people expressed on the election and sovereignty of the people in the basic principle underlying the new constitution. * We also Republican Government that chosen by the People and the Officers elected highest to lowest are servants of the people and not their masters.
There are Manifestation of a Democratic and Republican State. 1. The existence of a bill of rights.
-People have right and privilege which the constitution is designed to protect any violation. 2. Observance of the rule of the majority. - People have the right to observe what law they make. 3. Observance of the Principle that one’s government of law not of men.
-in a part of Democratic Country a Person may not agree with the wisdom and expediency of the law it in his duty to follow the law so long as it remains in the statute books. 4. Presence of election through popular will. -right to vote and select the right officer. 5. The observance of the principle of separation of power and the system which and balance.
-People has the right to observe the asset and abilities of the officers to find if the officer in concept or not. 6. Observance of the law on Public Officers -right to observe the limitation of the public officers. 7. The observance of the principle that the state connect be used with consent.
Section 2.
The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of