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Javellana vs. The Executive Secretary, et al. [ SEPARATE OPINION TEEHANKEE, J. ]

JOSUE JAVELLANA, petitioner vs. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, THE SECRETARY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE and THE SECRETARY OF FINANCE, respondents. / VIDAL TAN, J. ANTONIO ARANETA, ALEJANDRO ROCES, MANUEL CRUDO, ANTONIO U. MIRANDA, EMILIO DE [ SEPARATE OPINION TEEHANKEE, J. ]

G.R. No. L-36142 / No. L-36164 / No. L-36165 / No. L-36236 / No. L-36283 | 1973-03-31

SEPARATE OPINION

TEEHANKEE, J., dissenting: 

The masterly opinion of the Chief Justice wherein he painstakingly deals with the momentous issues of the cases at bar in all their complexity commands my concurrence. 

I would herein make an exposition of the fundamental reasons and considerations for my stand. 

The unprecedented and precedent-setting issue submitted by petitioners for the Court's resolution is the validity and constitutionality of Presidential Proclamation No. 1102 issued on January 17, 1973, certifying and proclaiming that the Constitution proposed by the 1971 Constitutional Convention "has been ratified by an...