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1. IN RE MANZANO
166 SCRA 246
3. Casibang vs Aquino
G.R. No. L-38025, August 20, 1978
a. Considering that membership of Judge Manzano in
Provincial Committee on Justice, which discharges
a. The term “Political Question” is a question of policy.
administrative functions, will be in violation of the
Those questions which, under the Constitution, are to be
Constitution. But this does not mean the Judges should
decided by the people in their sovereign capacity; or in
adopt an attitude of monastic insensibility or
regard to which full discretionary authority has been
unbecoming indifference to the Local Committee on
delegated to the legislative or executive branch of the
Justice. Even as non-members of the same, Judges
government. It is concerned with the issues dependent
should render assistance to said Committees to help
upon wisdom, not the legality of a particular measure.
promote landable purposes for which they exist, but only
b. On the other hand, a purely justiciable question implies
when such assistance may be reasonably incidental to
a given right, an act or omission violative of said right,
the fulfillment of judicial duties.
and a remedy granted by law, for said breach of right.