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Practice question: Legislative Districts and Apportionment

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Under Article VI, Section 5(3), each province is entitled to at least how many representatives?
  1. One, without the clause imposing the city's 250,000 population threshold on the province
  2. Two, regardless of any other rule
  3. Three, if it contains a capital town
  4. None unless its population exceeds one million
  5. Exactly one forever, regardless of lawful reapportionment

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 5(1), (3) and (4): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
  • Aquino III v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 189793, April 7, 2010, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/53925

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