Practice question
Which statement correctly describes the relation between Congress's general legislative authority and the Bill of Rights?
- Legislative majorities may disregard rights whenever policy is popular
- Rights constrain courts but never Congress
- Rights disappear if an enactment is called a special law
- Congress's broad legislative authority remains subject to constitutional rights
- Only a unanimous Congress is bound by rights
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article III, Sections 1, 5 and 22; Article VI, Section 1: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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