LEGAL RESEARCH – the process you use to identify and find the laws, including the statutes,

regulations, and court opinions, that apply to the facts of your case in answering law, research
about case.
-The finding

CHALLENGES IN LEGAL RESEARCH

 Lack of complete compilation of statutes and jurisprudence
 Lack of printed law finders
 Slow printed publication
 Advent of fake news
 Use of technology
FACT CHECK OF CHALLENGES IN LEGAL RESEARCH
 Verify
 Check the license authority

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PAGE 2: Militrary Governor as chief executive exercising executive, legislative, and judicial
functions
PAGE3 : the supreme court was composed of the Chief Justice and six judges.
PAGE 4: The president of the Philippine Commission became civil governor in areas already pacified
under the American military rule. The Civil Governor (the title was later changed to Governor-General in
1905) also exercised legislative powers while remaining as president of the Philippine Commission, the
lawmaking body of the government up to 1907.

PAGE 5: Upon the creation of the Philippine Assembly that served as the lower house, the Philippine
Commission became the upper house of the legislative branch from 1907 to 1916. The first free national
elections in the Philippines were held for the members of the Philippine Assembly who were all Filipinos
where Sergio Osmeña served as Speaker of the Assembly.

Philippine Commission and Philippine Assembly gave way to an all Filipino Legislature. The Philippine
Legislature had two houses – the Senate and the House of Representatives. Manuel Quezon was elected
President of the Senate and Osmeña again became Speaker of the House.

Despite the growing participation of the civil government there were still limitations. The American
governor-general was still the power behind the government and, together with the American president
could veto any law passed by the Philippine Legislature. The U.S. Congress regulated Philippine trade and
the American Supreme Court could overrule the decisions of the Philippine Supreme Court.
PAGE 6: Pursuant to the provisions of the Tydings-McDuffie Law passed by the U.S. the first national
elections under the 1935 Constitution, the Commonwealth Government was inaugurated on November 15,
1935, with Quezon as president and Osmeña as vice president.

The Commonwealth Government was a ten-year transitory government which gave Filipinos a chance to
prove to the Americans their capability readiness in handling their own government. If proven capable the
independence of the Philippines would be proclaimed upon the expiration of the said period.

PAGE 7: The Commonwealth was a semi-independent or autonomous government of the Filipinos under
American tutelage. It was republican in form under the presidential type. The legislative power was vested
in a bicameral congress that was divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives.

It had its own system of judicial courts with the Supreme Court on top of the ladder.

When the Second World War broke out ,the Commonwealth Government became a government-in-exile
administering the affairs of the Philippines across the ocean from the United States. The Commonwealth
officials, headed by President Quezon, had to flee there to the Japanese occupation of the country.