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Practice question: Residual Powers (EO 292, Book III, Title I, Ch. 7, Sec. 20)

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Practice question

What did the Marcos majority resolution say about the express enumeration of presidential powers?
  1. It exhausts every possible executive power.
  2. It does not necessarily exhaust powers implied from the constitutional grant of executive power.
  3. It authorizes the President to ignore every express prohibition.
  4. It transfers Congress’s entire authority to the President.
  5. It abolishes judicial power.

Legal references

  • Marcos v. Manglapus, G.R. No. 88211, October 27, 1989, majority resolution on reconsideration: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1989/oct1989/gr_88211_1989.html

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