UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Dura lex, sed lex. The law may be harsh, but it is the law. Another dictum is: Ignorance of the law excuses no one. Sounds good, right?
There are 10,200 laws as of 2026 as well as laws of the Spanish colonial period, Commonwealth acts and presidential decrees which all form part of the law of the land.
Now, are we Filipino citizens supposed to know all of these laws? Granting quite a few of these are laws renaming streets, declaring local or national holidays and other rather trivial use of law-making, there’s still a formidable number of laws that affect us. I must confess I don’t know them all, and thankfully, I’ve navigated through life without violating a major one,
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