Practice question
An executive office imposes a travel ban solely under a newly written internal circular. The problem stipulates that no law authorizes this restriction. The office invokes public safety. Does citing that interest alone supply the missing authority?
- Yes, the words public safety always suffice.
- Yes, an internal circular may create unlimited power.
- No; the constitutional requirement that impairment be provided by law remains material.
- Yes, officials can dispense with law whenever travel is involved.
- No, because public safety can never justify any travel restriction.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article III, section 6, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Genuino v. De Lima, G.R. No. 197930 et al., April 17, 2018, https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2018/apr2018/gr_197930_2018.html
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