Practice question
A presidential adviser says that courts must accept an executive issuance as administrative whenever the President gives it that title. Explain Ople v. Torres’s distinction between the form of an issuance and the substantive scope of executive administration.
Legal references
- Ople v. Torres, G.R. No. 127685, July 23, 1998, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36082
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 1 and 17: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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