Practice question
Does the President’s ordinary pardoning authority itself confer the legislative power to repeal the criminal statute for everyone?
- Yes; every pardon automatically repeals the underlying law.
- Yes; any prisoner may use another person’s pardon to repeal the statute.
- No; clemency concerning an offender is distinct from repealing the law.
- Yes; a pardon automatically amends the Constitution.
- No, because pardons can never have any penal effect.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 19: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Monsanto v. Factoran, G.R. No. 78239, February 9, 1989, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1989/feb1989/gr_78239_1989.html
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