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    The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Republic Act 1180, which prohibited aliens from engaging in retail trade in the Philippines and limited existing alien retail businesses. The Court found that the law was a valid exercise of police power and did not deny aliens equal protection. The law's classification between citizens and aliens was reasonable given the fundamental differences in their status, allegiance, and potential impact on national security. Statistics showed aliens had come to dominate the retail sector in a way that threatened the national economy.

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    The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Republic Act 1180, which prohibited aliens from engaging in retail trade in the Philippines and limited existing alien retail businesses. The Court found that the law was a valid exercise of police power and did not deny aliens equal protection. The law's classification between citizens and aliens was reasonable given the fundamental differences in their status, allegiance, and potential impact on national security. Statistics showed aliens had come to dominate the retail sector in a way that threatened the national economy.

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    The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Republic Act 1180, which prohibited aliens from engaging in retail trade in the Philippines and limited existing alien retail businesses. The Court found that the law was a valid exercise of police power and did not deny aliens equal protection. The law's classification between citizens and aliens was reasonable given the fundamental differences in their status, allegiance, and potential impact on national security. Statistics showed aliens had come to dominate the retail sector in a way that threatened the national economy.

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    Conflict with fundamental law; Police power

    G.R. No. L-7995 May 31, 1957

    LAO H. ICHONG, in his own behalf and in behalf of other alien residents, corporations and
    partnerships adversely affected. by Republic Act No. 1180, petitioner,

    vs.

    JAIME HERNANDEZ, Secretary of Finance, and MARCELINO SARMIENTO, City Treasurer of


    Manila, respondents.

    FACTS:

    The Legislature passed R.A. 1180 (An Act to Regulate the Retail Business). Its purpose was to prevent
    persons who are not citizens of the Phil. from having a stranglehold upon the peoples economic life.

    a prohibition against aliens and against associations, partnerships, or corporations the capital of which
    are not wholly owned by Filipinos, from engaging directly or indirectly in the retail trade

    aliens actually engaged in the retail business on May 15, 1954 are allowed to continue their business,
    unless their licenses are forfeited in accordance with law, until their death or voluntary retirement. In
    case of juridical persons, ten years after the approval of the Act or until the expiration of term.

    Citizens and juridical entities of the United States were exempted from this Act.

    provision for the forfeiture of licenses to engage in the retail business for violation of the laws on
    nationalization, economic control weights and measures and labor and other laws relating to trade,
    commerce and industry.

    provision against the establishment or opening by aliens actually engaged in the retail business of
    additional stores or branches of retail business

    Lao Ichong, in his own behalf and behalf of other alien residents, corporations and partnerships affected
    by the Act, filed an action to declare it unconstitutional for the ff: reasons:

    it denies to alien residents the equal protection of the laws and deprives them of their liberty and
    property without due process

    the subject of the Act is not expressed in the title

    the Act violates international and treaty obligations

    the provisions of the Act against the transmission by aliens of their retail business thru hereditary
    succession

    ISSUE: WON the Act deprives the aliens of the equal protection of the laws.

    HELD: The law is a valid exercise of police power and it does not deny the aliens the equal protection of
    the laws. There are real and actual, positive and fundamental differences between an alien and a citizen,
    which fully justify the legislative classification adopted.

    RATIO:

    The equal protection clause does not demand absolute equality among residents. It merely requires that
    all persons shall be treated alike, under like circumstances and conditions both as to privileges conferred
    and liabilities enforced.

    The classification is actual, real and reasonable, and all persons of one class are treated alike.
    The difference in status between citizens and aliens constitutes a basis for reasonable classification in
    the exercise of police power.

    Official statistics point out to the ever-increasing dominance and control by alien of the retail trade. It is
    this domination and control that is the legislatures target in the enactment of the Act.

    The mere fact of alienage is the root cause of the distinction between the alien and the national as a
    trader. The alien is naturally lacking in that spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm for the Phil. where he
    temporarily stays and makes his living. The alien owes no allegiance or loyalty to the State, and the
    State cannot rely on him/her in times of crisis or emergency.

    While the citizen holds his life, his person and his property subject to the needs of the country, the alien
    may become the potential enemy of the State.

    The alien retailer has shown such utter disregard for his customers and the people on whom he makes
    his profit. Through the illegitimate use of pernicious designs and practices, the alien now enjoys a
    monopolistic control on the nations economy endangering the national security in times of crisis and
    emergency.

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