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petitioners personally that is responsible for their acts. The practical justification for
the doctrine, as Holmes put it, is that "there can be no legal right against the
authority which makes the law on which the right depends. We adhere to the
principle of sovereign equality among states in Article II, Section 2, of our
Constitution, that the Philippines "adopts the generally accepted principles of
international law as part of the law of the land. WHEREFORE, the petition is
GRANTED.