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mentioned.
[113] Section 1, Article XII provides:
The goals of the national economy are a more equitable
distribution of opportunities, income, and wealth; a sustained
increase in the amount of goods and services produced by the nation for
the benefit of the people; and an expanding productivity as the key to
raising the quality of life for all, especially the underprivileged.
The State shall promote industrialization and full employment based on
sound agricultural development and agrarian reform, through industries
that make full and efficient use of human and natural resources, and
which are competitive in both domestic and foreign markets. However,
the State shall protect Filipino enterprises against unfair foreign
competition and trade practices.
In the pursuit of these goals, all sectors of the economy and all regions of
the country shall be given optimum opportunity to develop. Private
enterprises, including corporations, cooperatives and similar collective
organizations, shall be encouraged to broaden the base of their
ownership. (Emphasis supplied.)
[114] BERNAS, THE INTENT OF THE 1986 CONSTITUTION WRITERS, p. 800, citing
the sponsorship speech of Dr. Bernardo Villegas, Chairman of the Committee on
National Economy and Patrimony.
[115] 4 RECORD OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION 34.
[116] Petition, Rollo, pp.18-19.
[117] Id., at 20.
[118] Section 3. Definition of Terms. --For Purposes of this Act, the following terms
shall mean:
a) Ancestral Domains. --Subject to Section 56 hereof, refer to all areas generally
belonging to ICCs/IPs comprising lands, inland waters, coastal areas, and natural
resources therein, held under a claim of ownership, occupied or possessed by
ICCs/IPs, by themselves or through their ancestors, communally or individually since
time immemorial, continuously to the present except when interrupted by war, force
majeure
or displacement by force, deceit, stealth or as
a consequence of
government projects or any other voluntary dealings entered into by government
and private individuals/corporations, and which are necessary to ensure their
economic, social and cultural welfare. It shall include ancestral lands, forests,
pasture, residential, agricultural, and other lands, individually owned whether
alienable and disposable or otherwise, hunting grounds, burial grounds, worship
areas, bodies of water, mineral and other natural resources, and lands which may no
longer be exclusively occupied by ICCs/IPs but from which they traditionally had
access to for their subsistence and traditional activities, particularly the home ranges
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