Practice question
The House validly overrides an adverse committee resolution by the required vote. Supporters say that act itself establishes guilt and removes the official without Senate trial. Which is correct?
- The override itself is automatically a Senate conviction
- The House’s initiation role does not replace the Senate’s trial and decision function
- The committee vote directly imposes imprisonment
- The House and Senate are the same constitutional institution
- An initiation vote eliminates every later constitutional requirement
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XI Section 3(1), (3), (6).
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