EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF

GOVERNMENT
 LEGITIMATION

Legitimate power is the right to exercise control

over others by virtue of the authority of one's
superior organization position or status.
Legitimation of power can be understood using Max
Weber's traditional bases of power. In
a bureaucracy, people gain legitimate use of power
by their positions in which it is widely agreed that
the specified person hold authority. There is no
inherent right to wield power.
 POLICY LEGITIMATION

• Giving legal force to decisions, or authorizing

or justifying policy action
• Comes from majority vote in legislature and a
formal executive, bureaucratic, or judicial
decisions
• Requires more than majority vote or sanction
by legal authority.
 LEGITIMIZATION

For example:
A president can exercise power and authority
because the position is fully legitimated by
society as a whole.
 EXAMPLE:
EXECUTIVE ORDER 104 S. 2020

Improving Access To Healthcare Through

The Regulation Of Prices In The Retail Of
Drugs And Medicines
 EXECUTIVE ORDER 104 S. 2020

•The DOH initially proposed that 122 medicines be included in

the second phase of the imposition of the Maximum Drug Retail
Price (MDRP). The last MDRP was imposed in 2009 and only
included five medicines
•Ceiling prices for the 87 medicines with 133 formulations at the
point of wholesale and retail shall be imposed in both public and
private drug retail outlets including chain and independent
drugstores, hospital pharmacies, health maintenance
organizations and other outlets within 90 days, said Duque.
 EXECUTIVE ORDER 104 S. 2020
• Duque said the DOH will immediately issue an
administrative order to ensure the effective
implementation of the EO, and will disseminate
implementing guidelines to stakeholders.

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 KEY ROLES OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

PRESIDENT - leads the country. he is the head of state,

leader of the national government, and commander in chief
of all armed forces of the Philippines. the president serves a
six-year term and cannot be re-elected.
VICE PRESIDENT - supports the president. if the president
is unable to serve, the vice president becomes president.
THE CABINET – advisors to the president. they include the
vice president and the heads of executive departments. they
are nominated by the president and must be confirmed by
 POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT

1.Power of control over the executive branch

2. Power ordinance power:
Executive orders
Administrative orders
Proclamations
Memorandum orders
Memorandum circulars
General or special orders
 EXECUTIVE ORDERS

“Acts of the President providing for rules of a

general or permanent character in implementation
or execution of constitutional or statutory powers
shall be promulgated in executive orders.”

Administrative Code of 1987, Book III, Chapter 2,

Section 2.
 POWERS OF THE
PRESIDENT
3. Power over aliens
4. Powers of eminent domain, escheat, land
reservation and recovery of ill-gotten wealth
Power of eminent domain
Power to direct escheat or reversion
Power to reserve lands of the public and private
domain of the government
Power over ill-gotten wealth
 POWERS OF THE
PRESIDENT
5. Power of appointment
6. Power of general supervision over local
governments 
7. Other powers: exercise powers enumerated
in the constitution, and powers given to him
by law.
• 
 LINE OF SUCCESSION

Vice President
Senate President
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
 DUTIES OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

• assume a cabinet position should the President

of the Philippines offer the former one.
• secretary concurrent to the position of vice
president.
• assume the presidency in case of the death,
disability, or resignation of the incumbent
President.
 FUNCTIONS OF CABINET
SECRETARY
• act as the alter ego of the President in executing, with
his authority, the power of the Office of the President
in their respective departments.
• possess the power to issue directives relative to their
departments, such as department orders. These
orders only apply to offices under a specific
department under the cabinet secretary’s jurisdiction.
• acts as advisors to the President of the Philippines for
their areas
• According to the Administrative Code of 1987, the
 APPOINTMENT OF CABINET
SECRETARY
• According to the Article 7, Section 16, the President may
appoint anyone to executive departments with the
consent of the Commission on Appointments. Names of
individuals nominated to cabinet posts are submitted to
the Commission on Appointments for their consideration.
• An individual may not assume his post in a given
department unless confirmed by the Commission on
Appointments. However, the constitution provides for
individuals becoming cabinet secretaries in an acting
capacity before they are confirmed.
 APPOINTMENT OF CABINET
SECRETARY
• According to Article VII, Section 16 of the
constitution, the president may appoint anyone
to cabinet posts even if Congress is in recess.
These appointments are valid until the
Commission on Appointments disapproves them,
or at the end of the next session of Congress.
• Not all cabinet members, however, are subject to
confirmation of the Commission on
Appointments.