Practice question
A training manual describes a public office as having inherent power to disregard constitutional limits whenever its head believes the public would benefit. What correction follows from the nature of the Constitution?
- Public benefit permits every constitutional limit to be suspended.
- Public offices operate within the fundamental charter, and good intentions alone do not enlarge their powers.
- An office manual can grant constitutional authority.
- Only elected offices are subject to the charter.
- The Constitution governs private manuals alone.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
- Manila Prince Hotel v. GSIS, G.R. No. 122156, February 3, 1997, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/34508
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