FACTS: Kay Villegas Kami Inc. claiming to be a recognized nonstock, non-profit corporation contests validity of RA # 6132 Sec. 8 saying it violates due process rights of association, freedom of expression and is an ex post facto law
ISSUES:
1. WON it violates three rights?
No. It’s set up to prevent prostitution of electoral process and equal protection of laws.
2. Whether or not it is an ex post facto law?
No. Ex post facto law defined:
a. makes criminal an act done before law was passed and punishes act innocent when done.
b. aggravates a crime, makes it greater than it was
c. inflicts greater punishment than the law prescribed when committed
d. alters legal rules of evidence and authorizes conviction upon less or different tests
e. assuming to regulate civil rights and remedies only in effect imposes penalty or deprivation of right which when done was lawful
Petition denied. Constitutional act.
Constitutional inhibition refers only to criminal laws. Penalty in law imposed to acts committed after approval of law.
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