Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra says invasion and rebellion refer to armed actions by human beings, and not by non-living things like viruses.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo floated Monday a novel — and likely controversial — legal theory that President Rodrigo Duterte can declare martial law on the basis of “invasion” of the novel coronavirus.
“There is an actual invasion of the coronavirus disease, which is pandemic. It threatens, in fact, the entire country, soWhile saying that the definition of “invasion” evolved over time, Panelo conceded that the framers of the Constitution only considered it to mean the forced entry of foreign military forces into the country.
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