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party list For three consecutive terms after the ratification of this
Constitution, one-half of the seats allocated to party-list representatives
shall be filled, as provided by law, by selection or election from the labor,
peasant, urban porn:, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth, and
such other sectors as may be provided by law, except the religious sector.
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ARTICLE XII
National Economy and Patrimony
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SECTION 5. The State, subject to the provisions of this
Constitution and national development policies and programs, shall
protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to their ancestral
lands to ensure their economic, social, and cultural well-being.
The Congress may provide for the applicability of customary laws
governing property rights or relations in determining the ownership and
extent of ancestral domain ..
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ARTICLE XIII
Social Justice and Human Rights
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SECTION 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.
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ARTICLE XIV
Education, Science and· Technology, Arts, Culture, and Sports Education
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SECTION 17. The State shall recognize, respect, and protect the
rights of indigenous cultural communities to preserve and develop their
cultures, traditions, and institutions. It shall consider these rights in the
formulation of national plans and policies.
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ARTICLE XVI
General Provisions
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