Practice question
A congressional proposal divides a mainland province into districts. It can use adjoining municipalities to create compact districts without natural barriers, but instead places a remote municipality inside a district from which it is separated by an intervening district. The proposal's only explanation is convenience for a favored candidate. A supporter says geography never matters because population is the sole constitutional standard. Which assessment is best?
- The supporter is wrong because territorial contiguity, compactness and adjacency also matter as far as practicable
- The supporter is right because the Constitution expressly excludes geography
- The defect disappears whenever one candidate benefits
- The Constitution requires all districts nationwide to have identical shapes
- The proposal is automatically valid because it divides an existing province
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 5(1), (3) and (4): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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