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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. No. 42878. December 22, 1934. ]

CIPRIANO P. PRIMICIAS and FELICIANO B. GARDINER, Petitioners, v. QUINTIN PAREDES, in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and JOSE A. CLARIN, in his capacity as Acting President of the Senate, Respondents.

Alejo Mabanag, for Petitioners.

Acting Solicitor-General Melencio for Respondents.

SYLLABUS


1. PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE; ENACTMENT OF LAWS; POWER OF JUDICIARY; MANDAMUS. — Where a question is suggested as to whether or not a certain bill was duly approved by both Houses of the Philippine Legislature and where the journal which the Organic Act requires each House of the Legislature to keep is not identified, the return of the Speaker of the House and the Acting President of the Senate that the bill did not pass, supported by certified documents prepared by officers whose duty it is to prepare them, imports absolute verify and must be accepted as conclusive.

2. ID.; ID.; ID.; ID. — The judiciary by means of a writ of mandamus operating upon the heads of a legislative body, can not supervise the making up of a record of the proceedings of that body. To attempt to do so would constitute an inquisition into the conduct of members and officers of the Legislature and would do violence to the rights of a co
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