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THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODRIGO CAWILI, defendant-appellant. [SEPARATE OPINIONS, CASTO, J., BARREDO, J., ZALDIVAR, J.]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. RODRIGO CAWILI, defendant-appellant. [SEPARATE OPINIONS, CASTO, J., BARREDO, J., ZALDIVAR, J.]

G.R. No. L-30543 | 1970-08-31

CASTRO, J., concurring:

I concur fully in the majority resolution, but would add, what to my mind, is an observation of fundamental import. 

It will be recalled that Resolutions Nos. 1, 2 and 3 1 were passed by the Congress, sitting as a constituent assembly, on the same date, or more precisely on March 16, 1967, and that the Constitutional amendments proposed by Resolutions Nos. 1 and 3 were thereafter submitted to the people for ratification (but were resoundingly rejected by the electorate in the plebiscite conducted on November 14, 1967). 

If the Congress (as a constituent assembly) had intended section 3 of Resolution No. 2 as...