Mabanag vs Lopez Vito

FACTS
This is a petition for prohibition to prevent the enforcement of a congressional resolution
designated "Resolution of both houses proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
Philippines to be appended as an ordinance thereto."
The petitioners contend that their vote were not taken into consideration in requiring that in
amending the constitution, the law requires 3/4 of the votes of the member of the Congress thus
arriving in the question of constitutionality of the said resolution.
ISSUES
Whether or not the Court has jurisdiction and whether or not the journals can be
investigated against the conclusiveness of the enrolled bills.
HELD
Petition is dismissed without cost. The Court held that to go behind the enrolled bills which were
already authenticated and to investigate the journals amounts to disregard of the respect due to
the coequal and independent department of the state, and it would be an inquisition into the
conduct of the members of the legislature, a very delicate power, the frequent exercise of which
must lead to confusion in the administration of the law.
Duly certified copies shall be conclusive proof of the provisions of Acts and the due enactment
thereof.