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    B. PIO DURAN v. SALVADOR ABAD SANTOS

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    Justice Perfecto dissented from the majority opinion in Pio Duran v. Salvador Abad. In his dissenting opinion, he argued that depriving someone of their personal freedom without due process violates the Constitution and principles of democracy. He referenced teachings from the Bible about liberty and justice. He also referenced the words of Thomas Jefferson about liberty being a gift from God. Justice Perfecto alluded to Jhering's words "I crave the law" to emphasize the importance of upholding the rule of law and equal protection of the laws for all people regardless of status.

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    Justice Perfecto dissented from the majority opinion in Pio Duran v. Salvador Abad. In his dissenting opinion, he argued that depriving someone of their personal freedom without due process violates the Constitution and principles of democracy. He referenced teachings from the Bible about liberty and justice. He also referenced the words of Thomas Jefferson about liberty being a gift from God. Justice Perfecto alluded to Jhering's words "I crave the law" to emphasize the importance of upholding the rule of law and equal protection of the laws for all people regardless of status.

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    Justice Perfecto dissented from the majority opinion in Pio Duran v. Salvador Abad. In his dissenting opinion, he argued that depriving someone of their personal freedom without due process violates the Constitution and principles of democracy. He referenced teachings from the Bible about liberty and justice. He also referenced the words of Thomas Jefferson about liberty being a gift from God. Justice Perfecto alluded to Jhering's words "I crave the law" to emphasize the importance of upholding the rule of law and equal protection of the laws for all people regardless of status.

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    B. PIO DURAN v. SALVADOR ABAD SANTOS

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    Justice Perfecto dissented from the majority opinion in Pio Duran v. Salvador Abad. In his dissenting opinion, he argued that depriving someone of their personal freedom without due process violates the Constitution and principles of democracy. He referenced teachings from the Bible about liberty and justice. He also referenced the words of Thomas Jefferson about liberty being a gift from God. Justice Perfecto alluded to Jhering's words "I crave the law" to emphasize the importance of upholding the rule of law and equal protection of the laws for all people regardless of status.

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    B. Dissenting Opinion of PERFECTO, J. in PIO DURAN v.

    SALVADOR ABAD
    SANTOS (G.R. No. L-99, November 16, 1945)
    Questions:
    i. Do you agree with the Dissenting Opinion of Justice Gregorio Perfecto?
    Are we Christians? Do we believe in the teachings of the Bible? Have we
    faith in the biblical doctrines which are the vitalizing essentials of the
    Democracy? How can we" return every man unto his family" if we deprive
    him of his personal freedom in utter violation of the cardinal mandates of
    our Constitution, wherein it is solemnly enjoined that "No person shall be
    deprived of his liberty without due process of law"? How can we
    "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants", when we
    are keeping in bondage one of the citizens of our country in complete
    disregard of the laws of the land?

    "Can the liberties of an nation be thought secure" — asked Jefferson — "


    when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the mind of
    the people these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be
    violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I
    reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that
    considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the
    wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that
    it may become a probable by supernatural interference. The Almighty has
    no attribute which can take sides with us in such as a contest."

    "Had the social and political significance of Jesus's teachings of the worth
    of the individual soul borne its fruit in the practice of the Church, the world
    might long ago have seen a lasting free society. For Jesus, all men were
    brothers and equally precious in the sight of God, their Father. Jew and
    Gentile, bond and free, black and white, each was free to work out his
    own salvation. In the realm of the spirit the early Christian philosophy
    exalted the individual, giving him freedom to choose and to 'bear
    testimony.'"

    -We have, we must have, a government of laws. The equal protection of


    the laws shall not be denied to anyone, rich or poor, old or young, wise or
    fool, man or woman, noble or lowly, prince or tatterdemalion, saint or
    depraved, patriot or traitor, citizen or man without country.
    ii. Why do you think Justice Perfecto alluded to the words of philosopher-jurist
    Jhering, “I crave the law” in the latter’s book “The Struggle for law” in writing
    his Dissenting Opinion?

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