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    Citizenship

    Requirement
     Under section 1 of Article XIII of the Constitution, "natural
    resources, with the exception of public agricultural land,
    shall not be aliented," and with respect to public agricultural
    lands, their alienation is limited to Filipino citizens. But this
    constitutional purpose conserving agricultural resources in
    the hands of Filipino citizens may easily be defeated by the
    Filipino citizens themselves who may alienate their
    agricultural lands in favor of aliens. It is partly to prevent this
    result that section 5 is included in Article XIII, and it reads as
    follows:
     Sec. 5. Save in cases of hereditary succession, no private
    agricultural land will be transferred or assigned except to
    individuals, corporations, or associations qualified to acquire or
    hold lands of the public domain in the Philippines.
     This constitutional provision closes the only remaining
    avenue through which agricultural resources may leak into
    aliens' hands. It would certainly be futile to prohibit the
    alienation of public agricultural lands to aliens if, after all,
    they may be freely so alienated upon their becoming
    private agricultural lands in the hands of Filipino citizens.
    Undoubtedly, as above indicated, section 5 is intended to
    insure the policy of nationalization contained in section 1.
    RATIONALE: ”that lands, minerals, forests, and other natural
    resources constitute the exclusive heritage of the Filipino nation.
    They should, therefore, be preserved for those under the sovereign
    authority of that nation and for their posterity."

    Delegate Ledesma, Chairman of the Committee on Agricultural


    Development of the Constitutional Convention, in a speech
    delivered in connection with the national policy on agricultural
    lands, said: "The exclusion of aliens from the privilege of
    acquiring public agricultural lands and of owning real estate is a
    necessary part of the Public Land Laws of the Philippines to keep
    pace with the idea of preserving the Philippines for the Filipinos."

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