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Practice question: Calling Out Powers

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Which proposition correctly distinguishes calling out from declaring martial law?
  1. Every calling-out order automatically declares martial law
  2. Calling out may address necessary suppression of lawless violence without establishing the stricter martial-law predicates
  3. Calling out always suspends habeas corpus privileges
  4. Calling out transfers Congress's legislative power to the military
  5. Calling out requires martial law to be declared first

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 18: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
  • Integrated Bar of the Philippines v. Zamora, G.R. No. 141284, August 15, 2000, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36338

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