04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly creating the law. The function of all legal concepts is to enable discussion about the regulation of human behavior to be carried on in a sensible fashion. And new thinking may produce new classifications of legal rules to replace wholly or in part those which today seem so firmly established. (Underscoring supplied). [46] On Agrarian Reform - Art. XIII, Secs. 4-8. On Urban Land Reform - Art. XIII, Secs. 9-10; On Indigenous People's Rights - Art. XIII, Sec. 6; Art. II, Sec. 22; Art. XII, Sec. 5; Art. XIV, Sec. 17; Art. XVI, Sec. 12. Also, Art. VI, Sec. 5 (2) on the erstwhile system of sectoral representation providing for separate representation of peasant, urban poor and indigenous cultural communities. [47] E.g., Constitution, Art. XIII, Sec. 6 which reads: "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." [48] Bernas, The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines: A Commentary 793 (2003). [49] Black, Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws 258-259 (1911); Crawford, The Construction of Statutes 359-360 (1940); vide the Concurring and Dissenting Opinion of Justice (now Chief Justice) Reynato S. Puno in Santiago v. Comelec, 336 Phil. 848, 911 (1997). [50] Found particularly in Article XIII of the Constitution. [51] People v. Yabut, 58 Phil. 499 (1933). [52] Beltran v. Secretary of Health, G.R. No. 133640, November 25, 2005, 476 SCRA 168, 199-200. [53] Garcia v. Commission on Elections, G.R. No. 111511, October 5, 1993, 227 SCRA 100, 107-108. [54] Supra note 25. [55] Cf. Canonizado v. Hon. Aguirre, 380 Phil. 280, 296 (2000); Larin v. Executive Secretary, 345 Phil. 962, 980 (1997) wherein it was held that reorganization is regarded as valid provided it is pursued in good faith and, as a general rule, a reorganization is carried out in "good faith" if it is for the purpose of economy or to make bureaucracy more efficient. [56] Cutaran v. DENR, 403 Phil. 654, 662-663 (2001). [57] "The right of the people and their organizations to effective and reasonable participation at all levels of social, political, and economic decision-making shall not be abridged. The State shall, by law, facilitate the establishment of adequate consultation mechanisms." elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/44257 14/15