Practice question
Congress validly authorizes temporary emergency powers under Article VI, Section 23(2). It later reaches its next adjournment, without having withdrawn them earlier. The President says the powers continue indefinitely until he issues a proclamation terminating the emergency. Under the constitutional cessation clause, which answer is best?
- The powers necessarily continue until the next presidential election.
- The powers continue whenever the Cabinet agrees.
- The powers become permanent because Congress initially authorized them.
- The claimed indefinite continuation is incorrect because the Constitution provides for cessation upon Congress’s next adjournment unless sooner withdrawn by resolution.
- The powers can end only if the Supreme Court annuls the original law.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 23 and Article VII, Section 18: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article VI, Section 23(2).
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