The document discusses the meaning and constitutional provisions around social legislation and agrarian reform in the Philippines. It defines social justice as promoting the welfare of all people through equitable distribution of wealth and power for the common good. It outlines constitutional sections that require promoting social justice, regulating property ownership, and undertaking agrarian reform to distribute land to landless farmers. It also discusses protecting subsistence fishermen's access to fishing resources and providing incentives to landowners to invest in industries.
The document discusses the meaning and constitutional provisions around social legislation and agrarian reform in the Philippines. It defines social justice as promoting the welfare of all people through equitable distribution of wealth and power for the common good. It outlines constitutional sections that require promoting social justice, regulating property ownership, and undertaking agrarian reform to distribute land to landless farmers. It also discusses protecting subsistence fishermen's access to fishing resources and providing incentives to landowners to invest in industries.
The document discusses the meaning and constitutional provisions around social legislation and agrarian reform in the Philippines. It defines social justice as promoting the welfare of all people through equitable distribution of wealth and power for the common good. It outlines constitutional sections that require promoting social justice, regulating property ownership, and undertaking agrarian reform to distribute land to landless farmers. It also discusses protecting subsistence fishermen's access to fishing resources and providing incentives to landowners to invest in industries.
generally by protecting and assisting the weaker members of society. Meaning of social justice Social Justice – is neither communism nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy, but the humanization of the laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the state so that justice in its National and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated. Social justice means the promotion of the welfare of all the people, the adoption by government of measures calculated to insure economic stability of all the component elements of society, through the maintenance of proper economic and social equilibrium in the interrelations of the members of the community, constitutionally, through the adoption of measures legally justifiable, and extra- constitutionally, through the exercise of powers underlying the existence of all governments on the time-honored principle of salus populi est suprema lex. Constitutional provisions on social justice Art. XIII Sec. 1. The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good. To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, and disposition of property and its increments.
Sec. 2. The promotion of social justice shall include the commitment to
create economic opportunities based on freedom of initiative and self- reliance. The constitutional provisions on agrarian reform (5) Specific provisions on agrarian and natural resources reform. Article XIII:
Sec. 4. The State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian reform
program founded on the right of farmers and regular farmworkers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farmworkers, to receive a just share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage and undertake the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable retention limits (5 hectares; children, must be at least 15, and should personally cultivating or personally managing the land) as the Congress may prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental, or equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just compensation. In determining retention limits, the State shall respect the right of small landowners. The State shall further provide Sec. 5. The State shall recognize the right of farmers, farmworkers, and landowners, as well as cooperatives, and other independent farmers’ organizations, to participate in the planning, organization, and management of the program, and shall provide support to agriculture through appropriate technology and research, and adequate financial, production, marketing, and other support services.
Sec. 6. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or
stewardship, whenever applicable in accordance with law, in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers, and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands. The State may resettle landless farmers and farmworkers in its own agricultural estates which shall be distributed to them in the manner provided by law. Sec. 7. The State shall protect the rights of subsistence fishermen, especially of local communities; to the preferential use of the communal marine and fishing resources, both inland and offshore. It shall provide support to such fishermen through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production, and marketing assistance, and other services. The State shall also protect, develop, and conserve such resources. The protection shall extend to offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against foreign intrusion. Fishworkers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization of marine and fishing resources.
Sec. 8. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest
the proceeds of the agrarian reform program to promote industrialization, employment creation, and privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for their lands shall be honored as equity in enterprises of their choice.