Poe can never be stateless

As a foundling, the social justice principle that those who have less in life should have more in law should be applied to Sen. Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares. The state is even mandated to care for abandoned children under the principle of parens patriae.

The provisions of the 1935 Constitution on citizenship must be interpreted in conjunction with its Social Justice provisions, which expressly provide that “the promotion of social justice to insure the well-being and economic security of all the people should be the concern of the State.”