Practice question
The President chooses the incumbent Vice-President to head an executive department and separately nominates a private lawyer as ambassador. The two appointees satisfy the respective qualifications. An adviser says both appointments necessarily have identical confirmation requirements because both are presidential choices to prominent offices. Which is correct?
- Neither appointment can ever require confirmation
- Both require confirmation merely because the offices are prominent
- The ambassador is exempt whenever the nominee previously practiced law
- The Vice-President's Cabinet appointment needs no confirmation, while the regular ambassadorial appointment falls within the consent requirement
- The Vice-President alone confirms the ambassador
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 3 and 16; Article VIII, Section 9: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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