The right of a government to maintain its existence is the most pervasive aspect of sovereignty.

To protect the nation's continued

existence, from external as well as internal threats, the government "is invested with all those inherent and implied powers which,
at the time of adopting the Constitution, were generally considered to belong to every government as such, and as being
essential to the exercise of its functions"
- These powers which are to be exercised for the nation's protection and security have been lodged by the Constitution under
Article VII, Section 10 (2) thereof, on the President of the Philippines, who is clothed with exclusive authority to determine the
occasion on which the powers shall be called forth.