Practice question
After a Senator completes one full term and then does not serve at all during the next six-year senatorial term, she wins another full term. She now seeks the term immediately following that second period of service. Assume no prior service and that the intervening absence was complete, not a voluntary resignation within a term. Does the Constitution bar her solely because she has served two terms in her lifetime?
- Yes, because the Constitution imposes a two-term lifetime limit.
- No; the constitutional ceiling concerns more than two consecutive terms, and the first and later periods described are not consecutive.
- Yes, because any political absence counts as continuous service.
- No, because Senators have no consecutive-term limit at all.
- Yes, because every returning Senator must resign first.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VI, Section 4.
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