Practice question
An ordinary bill regulating professional licensing reaches the President. It is not an appropriation, revenue or tariff bill. The President signs it but announces that one substantive section is deleted under the item-veto power because it is politically objectionable. No separate statutory or constitutional basis for severing the section is claimed. Which is the strongest analysis?
- The item-veto power covers every numbered statutory section
- Signing permits the President to rewrite any disliked provision
- The deletion is valid if the Cabinet agrees
- The item-veto exception does not authorize selective deletion from this ordinary bill
- The deletion is valid because licensing is an executive concern
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 27: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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