Social Legislation

Laws
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, law is an
ordinance of reason promulgated for the
common good by one who has authority over
society
Law is any enactment of a norm by the
sovereign in a particular society.
Norm is a behavior that ought to be,
namely, what must be done, what must not
be done and what may be done.
 Social Legislations
Social relating to human society
Legislations enactments of a legislative
body
 Social Legislations - Laws that seek to
promote the common good,
generally by protecting and assisting
the weaker members of society.
 Social legislation: provides
particular kinds of protection or
benefits to society or segments
thereof in furtherance of social
justice.
Social Justice (Justice Laurel Calalang vs. Williams)

It is neither communism nor despotism

nor atomism nor anarchy, but the
humanization of laws and the
equalization of social and economic
forces of the State.
elements of society through the maintenance of
of proper economic and social equilibrium in the
interrelations of the members of the community,
constitutionality, through the adoption of
measures legally justifiable, or extra-
constitutionally, through the exercise of powers
underlying the existence of all governments, on
the time-honored principle of salus populi est
suprema lex.
 Inherent Powers of the State
1. They are inherent in the State and may be
exercised by it without the need of express
constitutional grant.
2.They are not only necessary but indispensable.
The State cannot continue or be effective
unless it is able to exercise them.
3.They are methods by which the State
interferes with private rights.
 Power of Eminent Domain - Eminent
domain is the right or power of a
sovereign state to appropriate private
property to particular uses to promote
public welfare. It is an indispensable
attribute of sovereignty; a power
grounded in the primary duty of
government to serve the common need
and advance the general welfare.
 Police Power is the power of the
government to regulate behaviors and
enforce order within its territory, often
framed in terms of public welfare,
security, health, and safety. The exercise
of police power can be in the form of
making laws, compelling obedience to
those laws through physical means with
the aim of removing liberty, legal
sanctions, or other forms of coercion and
inducements.
 Power of Taxation the power to impose
and collect taxes and charges on
individuals, goods, services, and other to
support the operation of the
government.
 Such legislation includes laws assisting
the unemployed, the infirm, the disabled,
landless, kasambahay and the elderly.
Social Insurance programs because they are
designed to protect citizens against hardship due
to old age, unemployment, or injury. Because
people receiving benefits from these programs
generally have contributed toward their benefits
by paying payroll taxes during the years that they
worked, these social insurance programs are
usually thought of as earned rewards for work
Include Government Service Insurance System,
Social Security System, Portability Law, Philhealth,
PAG-IBIG and Employees Compensation.
 Labor Laws
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programs
the Welfare System, provide government
assistance to those already poor. These social
programs have maximum income requirements.
4P of the DSWD - Patterned after the conditional cash
transfer scheme implemented in other developing
countries, the Pantawid Pamilya provides cash grants
to beneficiaries provided they comply with the set of
requirements of the program.