tanada vs angara lawphil statutes

No one may pretend to know the meaning of the expressions uttered or of the provisions written better than the very persons who poured on them their own thoughts and decisions. Cunningham, 81 Wis. Let us not so easily forget the Rizalian admonition: "Sufferance is not always a virtue; it is a crime when it encourages tyrannies. A portion of sovereignty may be waived without violating the Constitution. An insistent effort to justify and approve an action that violates elemental standards of law and justice, such as the Pendatum Resolution, may often lead one to advancing unwittingly the most unexpected theories.

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