Practice question
Congress follows the double-vacancy procedure but says it may wait six months to enact the calling law merely because ordinary legislative scheduling is flexible. What is the best response?
- Ordinary scheduling necessarily defeats all special deadlines.
- Only the Senate must act, at its leisure.
- Section 10 imposes a specific seven-day enactment deadline after the required convening.
- A calling law is never required.
- A city council may replace the national enactment.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VII, Section 10; Article VI, Section 25(4).
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