Practice question
An emergency planning board prepares a replacement national charter allocating all legislative, executive and judicial authority to itself. It labels the document an internal administrative manual and claims it can take effect through a board resolution, without any constitutionally prescribed process. No existing constitutional authority supports the change. What is the central problem?
- The board may replace the fundamental framework whenever it calls the document a manual.
- A document reorganizing the fundamental allocation of governmental power cannot acquire constitutional authority merely through an administrative label and resolution.
- The resolution is sufficient if the document is printed officially.
- A unanimous board vote is equivalent to ratification by the people.
- The absence of a document title prevents any legal analysis.
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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