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Practice question: Executive Departments and Offices

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Which category is excepted from ordinary performance of executive functions through department heads in Villena?
  1. Every routine administrative memorandum
  2. Every act requiring any legal interpretation
  3. An act the Constitution or law requires the President to perform personally
  4. Every decision involving office supplies
  5. Every lawful clerical instruction

Legal references

  • Villena v. Secretary of the Interior, G.R. No. L-46570, April 21, 1939, main decision, presidential departmental agents and personal-action exceptions: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1939/apr1939/gr_l-46570_1939.html

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