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Calalang vs Williams, Constitutional Law Digest

September 9, 2008

G.R. No. 47800.  December 2, 1940

MAXIMO CALALANG, petitioner, vs. A. D. WILLIAMS, ET AL., respondents.Maximo Calalang in his own behalf.

The case of Calalang vs Williams is known for the elegant exposition of the definition of social justice.  In this case, Justice Laurel defined social justice as “neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy” but humanization of laws and equalization of social and economic forces by the State so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated.

As I browse through the entire case, I found out that there is more to this case than the definition of social justice.  In fact, another important issue raised here is whether there was a valid delegation of power by the National Assembly to the Director of Public Works.  Let us begin with the facts of the case.

Facts:

In pursuance of Commonwealth Act 548 which mandates the the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to regulate and control the use of and traffic on such roads and streets  to promote safe transit upon, and avoid obstructions on, roads and streets designated as national roads, the Director of Public Works adopted the resolution of the National Traffic Commission, prohibiting the passing of animal drawn vehicles in certain streets in Manila.  

Petitioner questioned this as it constitutes an undue delegation of legislative power.

Issues: 

Whether or not there is a undue delegation of legislative power?

Ruling:

There is no undue deleagation of legislative power.  Commonwealth Act 548 does not confer legislative powers to the Director of Public Works.  The authority conferred upon them and under which they promulgated the rules and regulations now complained of is not to determine what public policy demands but merely to carry out the legislative policy laid down by the National Assembly in said Act, to wit, “to promote safe transit upon and avoid obstructions on, roads and streets designated as national roads by acts of the National Assembly or by executive orders of the President of the Philippines” and to close them temporarily to any or all classes of traffic “whenever the condition of the road or the traffic makes such action necessary or advisable in the public convenience and interest.”

The delegated power, if at all, therefore, is not the determination of what the law shall be, but merely the ascertainment of the facts and circumstances upon which the application of said law is to be predicated.

To promulgate rules and regulations on the use of national roads and to determine when and how long a national road should be closed to traffic, in view of the condition of the road or the traffic thereon and the requirements of public convenience and interest, is an administrative function which cannot be directly discharged by the National Assembly.

It must depend on the discretion of some other government official to whom is confided the duty of determining whether the proper occasion exists for executing the law. But it cannot be said that the exercise of such discretion is the making of the law.



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