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Practice question: Power to Determine President’s Inability to Discharge Duties

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A majority of all Cabinet members transmits the prescribed written declaration of presidential inability to the Senate President and House Speaker. The President has not yet sent a contrary declaration. Which immediate consequence does Section 11 specify?
  1. The Vice-President immediately assumes the powers and duties as Acting President
  2. Congress must first impeach the President
  3. A special presidential election automatically occurs
  4. The Supreme Court becomes the executive
  5. The Cabinet itself exercises all presidential powers indefinitely

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 11: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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