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Article 134Rebellion or insurrection-How committed

Act No. 3815 · Revised Penal Code

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Rebellion or insurrection: taking up arms against the government or engaging in armed resistance to a law or to any government authority. The penalty is reclusion temporal.

Official text — Act No. 3815

Rebellion or insurrection-How committed.

-The crime of rebellion or insurrection is committed by rising publicly and taking arms against the Government for the purpose of removing from the allegiance to said Government or its laws, the territory of the Philippine Islands or any part thereof of any body of land, naval or other armed forces, or of depriving the Chief Executive or the Legislature, wholly or partially, of any of their powers or prerogatives.

Source: lawphil.net (Act No. 3815 as amended)

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