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    Political law deals with the organization and operations of a state's governmental organs and defines its relations with inhabitants. It includes constitutional law, administrative law, law of public officers, election law, and law on municipal corporations. Constitutional law studies a state's government structure and powers. Every citizen should understand their government's mechanisms and motivations, as sovereignty resides with the people. The 1987 Philippine Constitution strengthened the bicameral congress and presidential system, judicial independence, and supremacy of the constitution over all other laws. A state is a community of persons permanently occupying a fixed territory with an independent government organized for political ends that the people render obedience to. A nation indicates a common race or origin while a state is a legal concept.

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    Political law deals with the organization and operations of a state's governmental organs and defines its relations with inhabitants. It includes constitutional law, administrative law, law of public officers, election law, and law on municipal corporations. Constitutional law studies a state's government structure and powers. Every citizen should understand their government's mechanisms and motivations, as sovereignty resides with the people. The 1987 Philippine Constitution strengthened the bicameral congress and presidential system, judicial independence, and supremacy of the constitution over all other laws. A state is a community of persons permanently occupying a fixed territory with an independent government organized for political ends that the people render obedience to. A nation indicates a common race or origin while a state is a legal concept.

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    Political law deals with the organization and operations of a state's governmental organs and defines its relations with inhabitants. It includes constitutional law, administrative law, law of public officers, election law, and law on municipal corporations. Constitutional law studies a state's government structure and powers. Every citizen should understand their government's mechanisms and motivations, as sovereignty resides with the people. The 1987 Philippine Constitution strengthened the bicameral congress and presidential system, judicial independence, and supremacy of the constitution over all other laws. A state is a community of persons permanently occupying a fixed territory with an independent government organized for political ends that the people render obedience to. A nation indicates a common race or origin while a state is a legal concept.

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    olitical Law

    Political law is that branch of publiclaw which deals with the organization andoperations of the
    governmental organs of the State and defines the relations of theState with the inhabitants of its
    territory.

    Scope of Political Law

    Constitutional Law

    Administrative Law

    Law of Public Officers

    Election Law

    Law on Municipal Corporations

    Constitutional Law

    Constitutional law is a study of the structure and powers of the Governmentof the Republic of the
    Philippines.It also deals with certain basicconcepts of Political law, such as thenature of the State, the
    supremacy of theConstitution, the separation of powers, andthe rule of the majority

    Necessity of the Study

    Every citizen, regardless of thecalling, should understand themechanisms and motivations of


    hisgovernment. This must be so because“sovereignty resides in the people and allgovernment authority
    emanates fromthem” (Art.II, Sec. 1, 1987 Constitution). Itis upon the active involvement in publicaffairs
    of every Filipino that the success of the Republic of the Philippines will depend.

    CHAPTER II

    THE CONSTITUTION OF THEPHILIPPINES


    Constitution of the Phils., past andpresent

    Commonwealth Constitution (1935)

    Constitution of 1973

    Freedom Constitution (Feb. 25,1986)

    1987 Constitution (adopted on Feb.02, 1987)

    Outstanding Features

    Revival of the Bicameral Congressof the Philippines and the strictlylegal Presidential system.

    The independence of the judiciaryhas been strengthened, with newprovisions for appointment
    andincrease in its authority, coveringeven political questions formerlybeyond its jurisdiction.

    Supremacy of the Constitution


    The Constitution is the basic andparamount law to which all other lawsmust conform and to which all
    persons,including the highest officials of the land.

    CHAPTER IIITHE CONCEPT OF THE STATEDefinition

    A state is a community of persons,more or less numerous, permanentlyoccupying a fixed territory, and


    possessedof an independent government organizedfor political ends to which the great bodypolitic
    render habitual obedience.

    State vs. Nation

    The term nation indicates a relationof birth or origin and implies a commonrace, usually characterized
    by communityof language and customs. The State is alegal concept, while the nation is only aracial or
    ethnic concept.

    Elements of state

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