Chapt1 General Considerations

Question 0

Political Law embraces

Answer 0

Constitutional Law 1 & 2
Administrative Law
Law of Public Officers
Election Law and
Law on Municipal Corporations

Question 1

Political Law

Answer 1

Is the branch of of public law which deals with the organization and operations of the governmental organs of the State and defines the relations of the State with the inhabitants of its territory.

Question 2

Constitutional Law

Answer 2

Designates the law embodied in the Constitution and the legal principles growing out of the interpretation and application of its provisions by the courts in specific cases.

Question 3

Constitutional Law 1

Answer 3

Is a study of the structure and powers of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.

Deals with: 
Nature of the State
Supremacy of the Constitution
Separation of Powers &
Rule of the Majority

Question 4

CONSTITUTION

Answer 4

The document that serves as the fundamental law of the State;

That written instrument enacted by the direct action of the people by w/c the fundamental powers of the government are Established, Limited and Defined, & by w/c those powers are distributed among the several departments for their safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

Question 5

Class’n of the Philippine constitution

Answer 5

W-ritten
E-nacted (conventional: customary, routine, formal)
R-igid

Question 6

The 1987 Constitution took effect on

Answer 6

Feb.2, 1987

Question 7

State

Answer 7

A community of Persons, more or less numerous
permanently occupying a definite portion of Territory,
Independent of external control,
& possesing a Government to which a
Great body of inhabitants render habitual obedience.

Question 8

4 Elements of the state

Answer 8

P-eople
T-erritory
S-overeignty
G-overnment

Question 9

People

Answer 9

Inhabitants of the state, the # of which is capable of Self-sufficiency and Self-defense;

Of both sexes for perpetuity (continuity).

Question 10

Territory

Answer 10

A fixed portion of the surface of the earth inhabited by the people of he State.

Question 11

Sovereignty

Answer 11

Supreme & uncontrollable power inherent in a state by which that State is governed.

Question 12

Government

Answer 12

Is the agency or instrumentality through which the will of the Sate is Formulated, Expressed & Realized.

Question 13

Jurisdiction

Answer 13

Manifestation of sovereignty.