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Practice question: Checks and Balances

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A Cabinet resolution purports to initiate an impeachment case against an impeachable officer without any proceeding in the House of Representatives. Which constitutional allocation is disregarded?
  1. The Senate’s power to originate all private bills
  2. The House’s exclusive power to initiate all impeachment cases
  3. The Cabinet’s exclusive power to remove all constitutional officers
  4. The Supreme Court’s power to sign impeachment complaints
  5. The Commission on Audit’s power to convict impeachable officers

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article XI, Section 3(1).

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