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Practice question: Prohibition on Death Penalty Imposition (RA 9346)

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Practice question

An administrator treats Section4’s Board publication mechanism as a new statutory power to veto the President’s constitutional clemency power. Which express qualification answers that reading?
  1. The Board now replaces the President in every case
  2. Nothing in the provision limits the President’s constitutional executive-clemency power
  3. A newspaper editor has final constitutional authority
  4. Publication abolishes every pardon
  5. The Act silently repeals the Constitution

Legal references

  • RA9346 Section4, clemency publication and preservation of presidential power: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2006/ra_9346_2006.html

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