Practice question
A proposed law allows a private corporation to lease 1,500 hectares of alienable agricultural land that remains in the public domain. Proponents invoke Congress’s power to set land sizes. Which limit directly answers the proposal?
- Congress’s sizing power removes every constitutional ceiling
- The corporation may acquire ownership instead
- Only a corporate board resolution is needed
- The constitutional one-thousand-hectare corporate lease ceiling remains binding
- Area limits apply only to foreign corporations
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XII, Section 3.
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