Practice question
The President initiates an extension request and Congress uses the correct Section 18 voting procedure. However, the stipulated evidence establishes no persisting invasion or rebellion and no public-safety necessity. Supporters say correct voting alone conclusively validates the extension and makes factual-basis review unavailable. Which assessment is best?
- Procedure alone removes every substantive requirement.
- The extension remains subject to the constitutional factual conditions and the express Supreme Court factual-basis review.
- The President’s request is itself invasion.
- Only campaign popularity supplies the standard.
- An extension can never be reviewed because Congress voted.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VII, Section 18.
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