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Question 1

is essentially the authority under the Constitution to make laws and subsequently, when the need arises, to alter and repeal them.

Answer 1

Legislative power

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Laws

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

The President of the Philippines.

Question 4

is a legislative leader in a parliamentary system of government

Answer 4

Prime Minister

Question 5

has been defined as the power to administer the laws, which means carrying them into practical operation and enforcing their due observance.

Answer 5

Executive power

Question 6

The laws include:

Answer 6

the Constitution, statutes enacted by Congress, decrees, and executive orders of the presendent, and decisions of courts.

Question 7

The judicial power shall be vested in on _________ ______ and in such lower courts as may be established by law.

Answer 7

Supreme Court

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Judicial Power

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

local government

Question 10

The Constitutional Commissions, which shall be independent, are the…

Answer 10

Civil Service Commission, the Commission on Elections, and the Commission on Audit.

Question 11

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.”

Answer 11

Civil Service

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Parole

Question 13

is the postponement of the execution of a sentence for an indefinited time

Answer 13

suspension of sentence

Question 14

postpones the execution of a sentence to a fixed or definited date

Answer 14

reprieve

Question 15

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”

Answer 15

political party

Question 16

is the legal process by which the registered voters of a local government unit remove, for lose of confidence, elective local officials.

Answer 16

Recall of officers

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Initiative

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Referendum

Question 19

implies the power to manage, direct, or govern and includese the power to supervise.

Answer 19

Control

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Supervision

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

tenure of office

Question 22

is the just and legal claim to enjoy the powers and responsibilities of the office.

Answer 22

right to hold office

Question 23

is an institutional unit of government

Answer 23

office

Question 24

is a matter of time during which a person may hold the office

Answer 24

term

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

Appointment

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

Executive agreement