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Tolentino vs Comelec 41 SCRA 702 [ SEPARATE OPINIONS ]

ARTURO M. TOLENTINO, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, and THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT, THE AUDITOR, and THE DISBURSING OFFICER OF THE 1971 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, respondents, RAUL S. MANGLAPUS, JESUS G. BARRERA, PABLO S. TRILLANA III, VICTOR DE LA SE [ SEPARATE OPOINIONS ]

G.R. No. L-34150 | 1971-10-16

SEPARATE OPOINIONS

REYES, J.B.L., ZALDIVAR, CASTRO and MAKASIAR, JJ., concurring: 

We concur in the main opinion penned by Mr. Justice Barredo in his usual inimitable, forthright and vigorous style. Like him, we do not express our individual views on the wisdom of the proposed constitutional amendment, which is not in issue here because it is a matter that properly and exclusively addresses itself to the collective judgment of the people. 

We must, however, articulate two additional objections of constitutional dimension which, although they would seem to be superfluous because of the reach of the basic constitutional infirmity...