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Legal Writing - Jose P. Laurel Social Justice

This 1940 case involved a traffic regulation in Manila that banned horse-drawn carriages (Calesas) from certain streets during afternoon hours. A citizen challenged the regulation's validity. The Supreme Court upheld the regulation as a valid exercise of police power, intended to benefit public welfare. This case is most known for Justice Jose P. Laurel's definition of social justice as the humanization of laws and equalization of economic and social forces by the state, so that justice and the welfare of all people can be promoted through maintaining economic and social equilibrium.

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Legal Writing - Jose P. Laurel Social Justice

This 1940 case involved a traffic regulation in Manila that banned horse-drawn carriages (Calesas) from certain streets during afternoon hours. A citizen challenged the regulation's validity. The Supreme Court upheld the regulation as a valid exercise of police power, intended to benefit public welfare. This case is most known for Justice Jose P. Laurel's definition of social justice as the humanization of laws and equalization of economic and social forces by the state, so that justice and the welfare of all people can be promoted through maintaining economic and social equilibrium.

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Calalang vs. WilliamsThis 1940 case is known primarily for Justice Jose P.

Laurels definition of
social justice.The classic case of Calalang vs. Williams, (70 Phil. 726)1940, tackled the issueof police power for
public welfare but is remembered because it contains a definition of social justice.Facts:A traffic regulation in
Manila banned Calesas from some streets in Manila duringcertain afternoon hours. A citizen challenged this
regulation.Issue:Was the regulation valid?Ruling:Yes. The supreme court upheld the regulation as valid exercise of
police power in the interest of public welfare.This case is known primarily for the words of Justice Jose P
Laurel defi ning social justice:

Social justice is neither communism nor despotism nor atomism nor anarchy but the
humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the state

so that justice in its rationale and objectively secular conception at least be as

approximated. Social justice means the promotion of the welfare of all the people the adaption of
government of measures calculate to insure economic stability of all the components of the society thru
the maintenance of a prop er economic and social equilibrium in the inter relations of the members of
the community, constitutionally, thru the adoption of measures legally justifiable or extra-constitutionally,
thru the exercise of powers underlying the existence of all government on the time honored
principle of salus capuli est supremo lex.

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