Practice question
The CHR monitors Philippine compliance with a human-rights treaty. An official claims that this monitoring power makes CHR the constitutional body that ratifies every treaty and supplies Senate concurrence. Which answer is correct?
- Monitoring automatically transfers all foreign-relations powers.
- The CHR must replace the Senate in every treaty vote.
- The monitoring function is expressly recognized, but it does not itself confer the separate presidential ratification or Senate concurrence roles.
- Human-rights treaties are never subject to any constitutional process.
- The Commission’s report automatically amends the Constitution.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XIII, Sections 13, 15, 16 and 18: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 21: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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