Practice question
A statute expressly prohibits an executive agency from issuing a permit unless a specified safety condition is met. The condition is absent. May the President rely on control alone to order the agency to issue the permit as though the condition did not exist?
- Yes. Control always repeals permit requirements.
- Yes. A subordinate's desire to comply with law is disobedience.
- Yes. Every statutory prohibition is merely advisory to the Executive.
- Yes. Agency hierarchy eliminates legal standards.
- No. Control does not dispense with the governing law, which the President must faithfully execute.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII Section 17: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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