Practice question
A statute requires a department to decide benefit claims under listed standards. A presidential direction requires monthly progress reports to monitor compliance, without changing those standards or claiming power outside the executive branch. Is reporting necessarily unlawful merely because the exact monthly form is absent from the statute?
- No; an authorized implementing detail can assist faithful execution while preserving the statutory standards.
- Yes; every monitoring form must be an express constitutional provision.
- Yes; reporting is always legislative rather than administrative.
- No; the form therefore permits the President to rewrite all eligibility rules.
- Yes; executive departments can never report to the President.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 1 and 17: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Ople v. Torres, G.R. No. 127685, July 23, 1998, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36082
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