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is essentially the authority under the Constitution to make laws and subsequently, when the need arises, to alter and repeal them.
Legislative power
refers to statutes which are the written enactments of the legislature governing the relations of the people among themselves or between thjem and the government and its agencies.
Laws
Following the 1935 Charter, Section 1 vests the executive power in one person alone.
Under both 1935 Constitution and the Present, he/she is both the head of State and the head of the government.
The President of the Philippines.
is a legislative leader in a parliamentary system of government
Prime Minister
has been defined as the power to administer the laws, which means carrying them into practical operation and enforcing their due observance.
Executive power
The laws include:
the Constitution, statutes enacted by Congress, decrees, and executive orders of the presendent, and decisions of courts.
The judicial power shall be vested in on _________ ______ and in such lower courts as may be established by law.
Supreme Court
is the power and duty of courts of justice to interpret and to apply the laws (including the Consitution) to contests or disputes concerning legally recognized rights or duties between the State and private individuals, or between private individual litigants, in cases properly brought before the judicial tribunals.
Judicial Power
refers to a political subdivision of a nation or state which is constituted by law and has substantial control of local affairs, with officials elected or otherwise locally selected.
local government
The Constitutional Commissions, which shall be independent, are the…
Civil Service Commission, the Commission on Elections, and the Commission on Audit.
means that professionalized body of men and women who have made of the government service a liftime acreer. IT has alkso been used to refer to that portion of the public service that is “governed by the merit principle in the selection of officers and employees.”
Civil Service
is a method by which a prisoner who has served a portion of his sentence is conditionally released but remains in lega custody, the condition being that in case of misbehavior he shall be imprisoned.
this does not pardon the prisoner.
Parole
is the postponement of the execution of a sentence for an indefinited time
suspension of sentence
postpones the execution of a sentence to a fixed or definited date
reprieve
may be defined as a voluntary organization of citizens advocating certain princiuples and policies for the general conduct of government.
“an association of voters believing in certain principles of government formed to urge the adoption and excution of such principles in governmental affairs through officers of like belief”
political party
is the legal process by which the registered voters of a local government unit remove, for lose of confidence, elective local officials.
Recall of officers
is the legal process whereby the registered voters of a local government unit may directly propose, enact or amend any law or ordinance at polss called for the purpose independently of the regularly constituted local legislative body.
Initiative
is the legal process whereby the registered voter of the local government unit concerned may approve, amend, or reject an ordinance enacted by a local legislative body when the question is submitted to them for decision.
Referendum
implies the power to manage, direct, or govern and includese the power to supervise.
Control
means the power to oversee the performance of work by a person or group of perseons and coordinate their activities in the implementation of one’s own or another’s instructions or policies.
Supervision
refers to the period, duration or length of time during which an officer may claim to hold the office as of right, and fixed the interval which the several incumbents shall succeed one another
represents the period during which the incumbent actually holds the office.
may be shorter than the term.
tenure of office
is the just and legal claim to enjoy the powers and responsibilities of the office.
right to hold office
is an institutional unit of government
office
is a matter of time during which a person may hold the office
term
is the act of designation by the executive officer, board, or body to whom the power has been delegated, of the individual who is to exercise the functions of a given office.
Appointment
is an agreement entered into by the President on behalf of the Philippines with the government of another country and is effective and binding upon the Philippines even without the concurrence of Congress.
Executive agreement
