TEXTBOOK ON THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
9. Right to confrontation of witnesses .................................. 188 10. Right to compulsory production of witnesses and evidence ............................................................. 189 11. Trial in the absence of the accused ................................... 190
4. Meaning of poll tax ............................................................ 205 5. Basis and purpose of prohibition against imprisonment for non-payment of poll tax ............. 206
SECTION 21
SECTION 15
1. Meaning of right against double jeopardy ....................... 206 2. Existence of double jeopardy ............................................ 207 3. Right to appeal in criminal cases ..................................... 207 4. Classes of double jeopardy ................................................. 208
1. Meaning of writ of habeas corpus ..................................... 190 2. Purpose of the writ ............................................................ 190 3. How writ operates ............................................................. 191 4. Suspension of the privilege of the writ ............................. 191 5. Meaning of writ of Amparo ............................................... 192 6. Purpose of the writ ............................................................ 192 7. How writ operates ............................................................. 193
SECTION 22
1. Meaning of ex post facto law ............................................. 208 2. Characteristics of ex post facto law ................................... 209 3. Meaning of bill of attainder .............................................. 209 4. Purpose of prohibition against bill of attainder ............... 209
SECTION 16
1. Right to speedy disposition of cases .................................. 193
ARTICLE IV — CITIZENSHIP SECTION 1
SECTION 17
1. Right against self-incrimination........................................ 195 2. Scope of guarantee ............................................................. 195 3. Nature of guarantee ........................................................... 195 4. Form of testimony prohibited ............................................ 196
1. Meaning of citizenship and citizen ................................... 211 2. Distinguished from nationality and nationals ................. 212 3. Meaning of subject and alien ............................................ 212 4. General ways of acquiring citizenship ............................. 212 5. Citizens by birth ................................................................. 213 6. Citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution ............................................................. 213 7. Citizens by blood relationship .......................................... 213 8. Citizens through election under the 1935 Constitution .. 214 9. Citizens by naturalization ................................................ 215 10. Meaning of naturalization ................................................ 216 11. Nature of naturalization .................................................... 216 12. Ways of acquiring citizenship by naturalization ............. 217
SECTION 18
1. Right against detention solely by reason of political beliefs and aspirations ............................................. 197 2. Meaning of involuntary servitude ..................................... 198 3. Basis and purpose of the prohibition ................................ 199 4. Exceptions to prohibition ................................................... 199
SECTION 19
1. Right against excessive fines ............................................ 200 2. Right against cruel, degrading, or inhuman punishments.............................................................. 201 3. Purpose of the guarantee .................................................. 202 4. Application of penalties or punishments .......................... 202 5. Imposition of the death penalty ........................................ 202
SECTION 2
1. Kinds of citizens under the Constitution ......................... 218
SECTION 3
1. Loss of citizenship .............................................................. 219 2. Reacquisition of lost Philippine citizenship ...................... 220
SECTION 20
1. Meaning of debt .................................................................. 204 2. Basis and purpose of prohibition against imprisonment for debt ............................................. 205 3. Prohibition limited to contractual obligations only ......... 205
SECTION 4
1. Effect of marriage of citizen to an alien ........................... 220
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