Practice question
An officer uses staff and official equipment for a private business project and refuses routine public service to persons outside his political group. He claims that appointment to office gives him complete personal discretion over public resources and clientele. Which response best applies the governing duties?
- Appointment eliminates all statutory constraints.
- Private benefit is always the purpose of public power.
- Only the officer's relatives may object.
- Public resources must serve public interest, and service must avoid unfair political discrimination; appointment does not convert these powers into private entitlements.
- The officer's preferred clientele determines the Constitution's scope.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XI, section 1, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Republic Act No. 6713, sections 4–5 and 7(c), https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6713_1989.html
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