People
v. Perfecto
G.R. No. L-18463 October 4, 1922
Malcolm, J.
Held:
On acquisition of territory the previous political
relations of the ceded region are totally abrogated. “Political” is here used
to denominate the laws regulating the relations sustained by the inhabitants to
the sovereign. As a matter of course, all laws, ordinances and regulations in
conflict with the political character, institutions and Constitution of the new
government are at once displaced. Thus, upon a cession of political
jurisdiction and legislative power — and the latter is involved in the former —
to the United States, the laws of
the country in support of an
established religion or abridging
the freedom of the press, or authorizing cruel and unusual punishments, and he like, would at once cease to be
of obligatory force without any
declaration to that effect.
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