Practice question
To implement an existing disaster-response law, the President directs executive departments to coordinate schedules and submit consistent operational reports. The directions stay within statutory duties and do not create new private liabilities. An officer objects solely that the Constitution does not list this exact reporting form. Which is best?
- Every administrative form requires constitutional amendment
- A reporting direction is necessarily a new penal law
- Coordination is lawful only if the Supreme Court drafts it
- The absence of a named form makes executive administration impossible
- The general executive and administrative role can support lawful implementation details
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, administrative-power discussion: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36082
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