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Calalang vs. Williams

Facts: The National Traffic Commission recommended the Director of Public Works and to the
Secretary of Public Works and Communication that animal-drawn vehicles be prohibited from passing
along Rosario St. extending from Plaza Calderon de la Barca to Dasmarinas St. from 7:30 am to 12 pm
and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm and also along Rizal Avenue from 7 am to 11 pm from a period of one year
from the date of the opening of Colgante Bridge to traffic. It was subsequently passed and thereafter
enforce by Manila Mayor and the acting chief of police. Maximo Calalang then, as a citizen and a
taxpayer challenges its constitutionality.

Issue: Whether the rules and regulations promulgated by the Director of Public Works infringes upon
the constitutional precept regarding the promotion of social justice

Held: The promotion of social justice is to be achieved not through a mistaken sympathy towards any
given group. It is the promotion of the welfare of all people. It is neither communism, 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 rational and objectively secular conception may at least be
approximated.

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