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Practice question: Executive Departments and Offices

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

An ordinary national executive bureau chooses lawful operating schedule A. On proper review, the President directs lawful schedule B instead. No statute fixes either schedule or otherwise limits this ordinary administrative choice. Which authority best explains the substitution?
  1. Judicial appellate jurisdiction.
  2. The Senate's exclusive impeachment power.
  3. Presidential control over executive bureaus.
  4. The bureau's independence from every superior.
  5. Private contractual authority over Congress.

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article VII Section 17: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
  • Drilon v. Lim, August 4, 1994, main decision, meaning of control: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1994/aug1994/gr_112497_1994.html

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