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Rubi vs. Provincial Board of Mindoro 39 Phil 660

RUBI, ET AL. (Manguianes), plaintiffs, vs. THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF MINDORO, defendant.

G.R. No. 14078 | 1919-03-07

MALCOLM, J.: 
 
In one of the cases which denote a landmark in American Constitutional History (Worcester vs. Georgia [1832], 6 Pet., 515), Chief Justice Marshall, the first luminary of American jurisprudence, began his opinion (relating to the status of an Indian) with words which, with a slight change in phraseology, can be made to introduce the present opinion. This cause, in every point of view in which it can be placed, is of the deepest interest. The legislative power of state, the controlling power of the constitution and laws, the rights if they have any, the political existence of a people, the personal liberty of a...