Practice question
The President lawfully reverses a Cabinet secretary's ordinary administrative directive within the Executive. The secretary insists that alter-ego status makes the directive immune from presidential review. Is that claim correct?
- Yes. An alter ego is constitutionally superior to the President.
- Yes. The presumption can never be rebutted.
- Yes. Departmental expertise removes presidential control.
- Yes. Only the secretary may review the secretary's own directive.
- No. The doctrine preserves presidential authority to disapprove or reverse the act.
Legal references
- Philippine Institute for Development Studies v. COA, G.R. No. 212022, August 20, 2019, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/65612
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