Practice question
A statute delegates a defined administrative task to an agency. Its director announces that this delegation has made the director, personally, the sovereign over all residents affected by the task. Which response accords with Article II, Section 1?
- A delegated task does not transfer the people’s sovereignty into the director’s personal ownership.
- Every delegation makes its recipient an unlimited sovereign.
- Residents lose all constitutional rights upon delegation.
- The director may sell the delegated sovereignty privately.
- Delegation dissolves the Philippine State within the agency’s jurisdiction.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
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