Chapter 4

Question 1

What were the three ways in attempting to amend or change the 1987 Constitution?

Answer 1

*Constituent Assembly
*People’s Initiative
*Constitutional Convention

Question 2

When did the first attempt to amend the 1987 Constitution take place?

Answer 2

1995 by Jose Almonte

Question 3

When did the second attempt to amend the 1987 Constitution take place?

Answer 3

1997; (People’s Initiative for Reform Modernization and Action or PIRMA)

Question 4

He had no mark of interest in charter change except those emanating from different members of congress.

Answer 4

Benigno Aquino

Question 5

When did the former President Rodrigo Duterte sign an executing order creating a consultative committee to review the 1987 constitution?

Answer 5

December 7, 2016

Question 6

It is defined as a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.

Answer 6

Constitution

Question 7

It means to be part of a whole, the coming together of distinct entities into one group, with the same principles and ideals.

Answer 7

Constitution

Question 8

It was the provisionary Constitution of the Philippine Republic during the Philippine Revolution, and was promulgated by the Philippine Revolutionary Government on 1 November 1897.

Answer 8

The Constitution of Biak-na-Bato of 1897

Question 9

This constitution was borrowed from Cuba and was written by Isabelo Artacho and Felix Ferrer in Spanish, later translated to Tagalog.

Answer 9

The Constitution of Biak-na-Bato of 1897

Question 10

One of the organs under the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato which is vested with the power of the Republic, headed by the president and four department secretaries: the interior, foreign affairs, treasury, and war.

Answer 10

Supreme Council

Question 11

One of the organs under the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato which is given the authority to make decisions and affirm or disprove the sentences rendered by other courts, and to dictate rules for the administration of justice.

Answer 11

Supreme Council of Grace and Justice

Question 12

One of the organs under the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato which was to be convened after the revolution to create a new constitution and to elect a new council of government and Representative of people.

Answer 12

Assembly of Representatives

Question 13

This constitution was never fully implemented since a truce, the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, was signed between the Spanish and the Philippine Revolutionary Army.

Answer 13

The Constitution of Biak-na-Bato of 1897

Question 14

It is known as the Constitution Politicia de Malolos as it was written in Spanish.

Answer 14

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 15

This constitution has thirty-nine articles divided into fourteen titles, with eight articles of transitory provisions, and a final additional article.

Answer 15

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 16

This document was patterned after the Spanish Constitution of 1812, with influences from the charters of Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Answer 16

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 17

Who is the main author of the Malolos Constitution of 1899?

Answer 17

Felipe Calderon

Question 18

This constitution was never enforced due to the ongoing war.

Answer 18

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 19

It is the first organic law for the Philippine Islands that provided for the creation of a popularly elected Philippine Assembly.

Answer 19

Philippine Organic Act of1902

Question 20

This constitution was sanctioned and promulgated by Former President Emilio Aguinaldo on January 21, 1899.

Answer 20

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 21

This constitution states that the people have exclusive sovereignty.

Answer 21

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 22

This institution calls for presidential form of government with the president elected for a term of four years by majority of the Assembly.

Answer 22

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 23

It is the authentic and official constitution of La Republica Filipina.

Answer 23

Malolos Constitution of 1899

Question 24

By 1934, a law was passed by the United States Congress that provided authority and defined mechanisms for the establishment of a formal constitution by a constitutional convention.

Answer 24

Tydings-McDuffie Act or Philippine Independence Act

Question 25

This constitution was crafted to meet the approval of the United States government, and to ensure that the US would live up to its promise to grant independence to the Philippines.

Answer 25

The Commonwealth Constitution of 1935

Question 26

It is an administrative body that governed the Philippines from 1935 to 1946.

Answer 26

Commonwealth of the Philippines.

Question 27

He endorsed constitutional change after President Estrada was replaced by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Answer 27

House Speaker Jose de Venecia

Question 28

It is essentially the rectification of the whole system of agriculture.

Answer 28

Agrarian Reform

Question 29

It is an important aspect of the Philippine economy because nearly half of the population is employed in the agricultural sector.

Answer 29

Agrarian Reform

Question 30

It is centered on the relationship between production and the distribution of land among farmers.

Answer 30

Agrarian Reform

Question 31

It focuses on the political and economic class character of the relations of production and distribution in farming ang related enterprises and how these connect to the broader class structure.

Answer 31

Agrarian Reform

Question 32

It is a small independent village that is ruled by Dato (oldest in the community) or the head man that rules the community.

Answer 32

Barangay

Question 33

It is an agriculture system wherein the native rural communities were organized into pueblo and each Christianized native family is given four to five hectares of land to cultivate, thus there is no landless class.

Answer 33

Pueblo Agriculture

Question 34

It was a form of forced and unpaid labor used by Spanish authorities and settlers in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.

Answer 34

Encomienda System

Question 35

They were the people under the encomienda system. They were granted the right to compel indigenous people to work their land and to pay tribute.

Answer 35

Encomenderos

Question 36

It was practiced wherein peasants were made to compulsory sell at a very low price or surrender their agricultural harvests to Spanish authorities where encomienderos can resell it for a profit.

Answer 36

Compras y Vandalas System

Question 37

It was implemented to fast track the entry of the colony into capitalistic world.

Answer 37

Hacienda System

Question 38

The system was designed to keep people that were in debt working on a piece of land.

Answer 38

Hacienda System

Question 39

It provided regulations on the disposal of public lands.

Answer 39

Philippine Bill of 1902

Question 40

Private individual may own 16 hectares of land while corporate landholders may have 1,024 hectares.

Answer 40

Philippine Bill of 1902

Question 41

This introduced the Torrens System to address the absence of earlier records of issued land titles and conduct accurate land surveys.

Answer 41

Land Registration Act or Act No. 496 by Philippine Commission

Question 42

This allows a tenant to enter into agricultural business by acquiring a farm of at least 16 hectares.

Answer 42

Public Land Act of 1903

Question 43

He laid down a social justice program focused on the purchase pf haciendas, which were to be divided and sold to tenants.

Answer 43

Former President Manuel L. Quezon

Question 44

He created the National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARICC) to assign public defenders.

Answer 44

Former President Manuel L. Quezon

Question 45

He created the Court of Industrial Relations to exercise jurisdiction over disagreements coming from landowner-tenant relationship.

Answer 45

Former President Manuel L. Quezon

Question 46

During this era, lands were owned mostly by the Roman Catholic Church, notably the religious orders of the friars.

Answer 46

Spanish Era