he preamble, the bill of rights, and provisions on checks and balances; c.

the national territory, the

declaration of principles and state policies, and the transitory provisions; d. the executive department,
the legislative department and the judiciary. SUGGESTED ANSWER: A. Nachura, Outline review in
political Law, p, 3 (2012) C. Amendments and revisions The constitutional provision on initiative and
referendum is not selfexecutory. This is so because it requires: a. an implementing resolution from the
COMELEC; b. an implementing resolution from the Supreme Court; c. an implementing legislation; d. an
implementing resolution from the party-list representative of the House of Representatives. SUGGESTED
ANSWER: C. SECTION 32, ARTCLE IV OF CONSTITUTION (2012) In an amendment to the constitution by
"initiative and referendum", the "initiative" phase is meant that the people propose the amendments.
There is a valid proposal when a proposition has received the approval of: a. at least 3% of the persons
of majority age of each district, and 12% of the registered voters of the region from proposal emanates;
b. at least 3% of the registered voters of each province and 12% of the total number of registered voters
nationwide; c. at least 3% of the registered voters of each district and 12% of the total number of
registered voters nationwide; d. more than 3% of the 3% of the registered voters of each district but less
than 12% of the total number of registered voters nationwide. SUGGESTED ANSWER: B. SECTION 2,
ARTICLE XVII OF CONSTITUTION (2012) With the passage of time, the members of the House of
Representatives increased with the creation of new legislative districts and the corresponding
adjustments in the number of partylist representatives. At a time when the House membership was
already 290, a great number of the members decided that it was time to propose amendments to the
Constitution. The Senators, however, were cool to the idea. But the members of the House insisted.
They accordingly convened Congress into a constituent assembly in spite of the opposition of the
majority of the members of the Senate. When the votes were counted, 275 members of the House of
Representatives approved the proposed amendments. Only 10 Senators supported such proposals. The
proponents now claim that the proposals were validly made, since more than the required three-fourths
vote of Congress has been obtained. The 14 Senators who voted against the proposals claim that the
proposals needed not three-fourths vote of the entire Congress but each house. Since the required
number of votes in the Senate was not obtained, then there could be no valid proposals, so argued the
Senators. Were the proposals validly adopted by Congress? (5%) SUGGESTED ANSWER: The proposal
were not validly adopted, because the ten (10) Senators who voted in favor of the proposed
amendments constituted less than three-fourths of all the Members of the Senate. Although Section 1,
Article XVII of the Constitution did not expressly provide that the Senate and the House of
Representatives must vote separately, when the Legislature consist of two (2) houses, the determination
of one house is to be submitted to the separate determination of the other house iller v. Mardo, 2 SCRA
898 [1961]. (2014) Constituent power refers to the authority (1%) (A) of public officials to command
respect (B) given to Congress to enact police power measures (C) to propose constitutional amendments
or revisions (D) of the people to take back the power entrusted to those in government (E) of the
President to call out the armed forces to suppress lawless violence (2014) D. Self-executing and non-self-
executing provisions Which one of the following is a non-self-executing provision of the Constitution: a.
no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech; b. no law shall be made respecting an
establishment of religion; c. no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due
process of law; d. the state shall encourage and support researches and studies on the arts and culture.
SUGGESTED ANSWER: D. SECTION 15, ARTICLE XIV OF CONSTITUTION (2012) E. General provisions II.
General Considerations A. National territory 1. Archipelagic doctrin