Article 11 Accountability Of Public Officers

Question 1

The right, authority, and duty created and conferred by law by which, for a given period either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure of the appointing power

Answer 1

Public office

Question 2

The nature of public office

Answer 2

Public trust
It is not property
It is not a contract

Question 3

Those officials whose duties not being of a clerical or manual nature, involve the exercise of discretion the performance of the functions of government

Answer 3

Officer

Question 4

Generally used in reference to person in the public service, it includes any person in the government

Answer 4

Employee

Question 5

A method of national inquest into the conduct of public men

Answer 5

Impeachment

Question 6

Who are the impeachable government officials

Answer 6

President and the vice president
Members of the Supreme Court
Members of the constitutional commissions
The ombudsman

Question 7

What are the grounds of impeachment

Answer 7

Culpable violation of the constitution
Treason
Bribery
Graft and corruption
Other high crimes
Betrayal of public trust

Question 8

Willful and intentional breach of the constitution

Answer 8

Culpable violation of the constitution

Question 9

A crime committed by any person who owing allegiance to the Philippines

Answer 9

Treason

Question 10

The phrase covers all graft and corrup practices

Answer 10

Graft and corruption

Question 11

Crimes which like treason and bribery are of so serious and enormous a nature as to affect the very life or orderly workings of the government

Answer 11

Other high crimes

Question 12

Cover any violation of the oath of office involving loss of popular support even if it may not amount to a criminal offense

Answer 12

Betrayal of public trust

Question 13

What are the procedures in impeachment cases

Answer 13

Filling of the verified complaint
Trial by the senate
Requirement for conviction