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D'etat Shall Suffer The Penalty of Reclusion Perpetua

The document outlines crimes against public order in the Philippines, specifically rebellion, sedition, and disloyalty. It defines rebellion as rising up publicly and taking up arms against the government. Coup d'etat is defined as a swift attack directed at authorities to seize power. Penalties for leading these crimes include life imprisonment. Conspiring or proposing them is also punishable by imprisonment and fines. Sedition involves rising up tumultuously to attain objects like preventing laws or elections through force. Inciting or conspiring sedition is punishable by imprisonment and fines.

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D'etat Shall Suffer The Penalty of Reclusion Perpetua

The document outlines crimes against public order in the Philippines, specifically rebellion, sedition, and disloyalty. It defines rebellion as rising up publicly and taking up arms against the government. Coup d'etat is defined as a swift attack directed at authorities to seize power. Penalties for leading these crimes include life imprisonment. Conspiring or proposing them is also punishable by imprisonment and fines. Sedition involves rising up tumultuously to attain objects like preventing laws or elections through force. Inciting or conspiring sedition is punishable by imprisonment and fines.

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Act No.

3815
Revised Penal Code
as amended

Title Three
Crimes Against Public Order
Chapter One

Rebellion, Sedition and Disloyalty

ART. 134. Rebellion or insurrection. - How committed. - The crime of rebellion or insurrection is


committed by rising publicly and taking arms against the government for the purpose of removing
from the allegiance to said Government or its laws, the territory of the Republic of the Philippines
or any part thereof, of any body of land, naval or other armed forces, or depriving the Chief
Executive or the Legislature, wholly or partially, of any of their powers or prerogatives.

ART. 134-A. Coup d'etat - How committed. - The crime of coup d'etat is a swift attack,
accompanied by violence, intimidation, threat, strategy or stealth, directed against duly
constituted authorities of the Republic of the Philippines, or any military camp or installation,
communications networks, public utilities or facilities needed for the exercise and continued
possession of power, singly or simultaneously carried out anywhere in the Philippines by any
person or persons, belonging to the military or police or holding any public office or employment,
with or without civilian support or participation, for the purpose of seizing or diminishing state
power.

ART. 135. Penalty for rebellion, insurrection or coup d'etat. - Any person who promotes,
maintains or heads a rebellion or insurrection shall suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

Any person merely participating or executing the commands of others in a rebellion or


insurrection shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal.

Any person who leads or in any manner directs or commands others to undertake a coup
d'etat shall suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

Any person in the government service who participates, or executes directions or commands of
others in undertaking a coup d'etat shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal in its maximum
period.

Any person not in the government service who participates, or in any manner supports, finances
abets or aids in undertaking a coup d'etat shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its maximum
period.

When the rebellion, insurrection, or coup d'etat shall be under the command of unknown leaders,
any person who is in fact directed the others, spoke for them, signed receipt and other documents
issued in their name, or performed similar acts, on behalf of the rebels shall be deemed a leader
of such rebellion, insurrection, or coup d'etat.

ART. 136. Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d'etat, rebellion or insurrection. - The
conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d'etat shall be punished by prision mayor in its minimum
period and a fine shall not exceed eight thousand pesos (P8,000.00).

The conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion or insurrection shall be punished, respectively,
by prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine shall not exceed five thousand pesos
(P5,000.00), and by prision correccional in its medium period and a fine not exceeding two
thousand pesos (P2,000.00).

ART. 137. Disloyalty of public officers or employees. - The penalty of prision correccional in its
minimum period shall be imposed upon public officers or employees who have failed to resist a
rebellion by all the means in their power, or shall continue to discharge the duties of their offices
under the control of the rebels or shall accept appointment to office under them.

ART. 138. Inciting to rebellion or insurrection. - The penalty of prision mayor in its minimum
period shall be imposed upon any person who, without taking arms or being in open hostility
against the Government, shall incite others to the execution of any of the acts specified in article
134 of this Code, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, banners or other
representations tending to the same end.

ART. 139. Sedition - How committed. - The crime of sedition is committed by persons who rise
publicly and tumultuously in order to attain by force, intimidation, or by other means outside of
legal methods, any of the following objects:

1. To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or the holding of any popular
election;
2. To prevent the National Government, or any provincial or municipal government, or any
public officer thereof from freely exercising its or his functions, or prevent the execution of
any administrative order;
3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any public officer or
employee;
4. To commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private
persons or any social class; and
5. To despoil, for any political or social end, any person, municipality or province, or the
National Government of all its property or any party thereof.

ART. 140. Penalty for Sedition. - The leader of a sedition shall suffer the penalty of prision
mayor in its minimum period and a fine not exceeding 10,000 pesos.

Other persons participating therein shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its maximum
period and a fine not exceeding 5,000 pesos.

ART. 141. Conspiracy to commit sedition. - Persons conspiring the commit the crime of sedition
shall be punished by prision correccional in its medium period and a fine not exceeding 2,000
pesos.

ART. 142. Inciting to Sedition. - The penalty of prision correctional in its maximum period and a
fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any person who, without taking any direct
part in the crime of sedition, should incite others to the accomplishment of any of the acts which
constitute sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners,
or other representations tending to the same end, or upon any person or persons who shall utter
seditious words or speeches, write, publish, or circulate scurrilous libels against the Republic of
the Philippines or any of the duly constituted authorities thereof, or which tend to disturb or
obstruct any lawful officer in executing the functions of his office, or which tend to instigate others
to cabal and meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite people against the
lawful authorities or to disturb the peace of the community, the safety and order of the
Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil practices.

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