Article III to His image so that he may

BILL OF RIGHTS live a happy life. Examples

are the right to life, the
Concepts of a bill of right to liability, the
rights. right to property, and the
right to love;
A bill of rights may be
defined as a declaration and (2) Constitutional rights.-
enumeration of a person’s They are those rights which
rights and privileges which are conferred and protected
the Constitution is designed by the Constitution. Since
to protect against they are part of the
violations by the fundamental law, they cannot
government, or by an be modified or taken away by
individual or groups of the law-making body; and
individuals. It is a charter
of liberties for the (3) Statutory rights.- 
individual and a limitation They are those rights which
upon the power of the State. are provided by laws
promulgated by the law-
Its basis is the social making body and,
importance accorded to the consequently, may be
individual in a democratic abolished by the same body.
or republican state, the Examples are the right to
lowliest in economic or receive minimum wage and the
social status are equal to right to adopt a child by an
the richest or most unrelated person.
influential because they,
too, are endowed with human CLASSIFICATION OF
dignity. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

Classes of rights. The human rights secured by

the Constitution include
  The rights that a citizen social and economic rights
of a democratic state enjoys not just political and civil
may be classified into: rights. They are as follows:

(1) Natural rights. -  They (1) Political rights. -  They

are those rights possessed are such rights of the
by every citizen without citizens  which give them the
being granted by the State power to participate, directly
for they are given to man by or indirectly, in the
God as a human being created establishment or
administration of the 8.) are likewise civil
government. rights. However, they
  partake of the
Among these rights are the nature of political rights
right of citizenship (Art. when they are utilized as a
IV.), the right of suffrage means to participate in the
(Art. V.), and the right to
government;
information on matters of
public concern (Sec. 7.);
(3) Social and economic
(2) Civil rights. –They are rights. – They refer to
those rights which the law those rights which are
will enforce at the instance intended to insure the well-
of private individuals for being and economic security
the purpose of securing to of the individual.
them the enjoyment of their
means of happiness. The right to property (Sec.
1.) and the right to just
They include the rights to compensation for private
due process and equal property taken for public
protection of the laws (Sec. use (Sec. 9.) belong more
1.); the rights appropriately under this
against involuntary third category of rights.
servitude of the laws (Sec They are also
18[2].) and imprisonment for provided in the articles
non-payment of the debt or a dealing with the promotion
poll tax (Sec. 20.); the if social justice (Art.
constitutional rights of the XIII.), the conservation and
accused (Secs. 11 to 22); utilization of natural
the social and economic resources (Art. XIV, Secs.
rights (infra.); religious 1, 2, 5, [4, 5].), science
freedom (Sec. 5); liberty of and technology (Ibid.,
abode and of changing the Secs. 17, 18.)
same
(Sec. 6.); and the right
against impairment of
obligation of a contract.
(Sec. 10.)

Freedom of speech, of
expression, or of the press,
the right of assembly and
petition, and the right to
form associations (Secs. 4,