Practice question
During a valid inquiry into safety standards for passenger vessels, a witness is asked solely about an unrelated private family quarrel. The committee concedes the question has no relation to the inquiry. Under Arnault, can it compel the answer merely because the broader inquiry is valid?
- No; a valid inquiry does not make an admittedly unrelated question pertinent.
- Yes; jurisdiction over one subject authorizes every possible personal question.
- Yes; all witness rights disappear upon attendance.
- Yes; the chair’s curiosity is the constitutional purpose.
- No, because no legislative question can ever be compelled.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Arnault v. Nazareno, G.R. No. L-3820, July 18, 1950, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1950/jul1950/gr_l-3820_1950.html
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