Practice question
A local unit lawfully budgets resources within its authority. A national official orders a different policy merely because it seems wiser, identifies no legal violation and claims presidential supervision permits unrestricted revision. Which is best?
- Supervision allows every revision
- The official must distinguish ensuring legality from substituting judgment; the stated rationale asserts control rather than supervision
- Local autonomy removes every national power
- A national preference automatically amends the local budget law
- The local unit becomes sovereign
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article X Sections 2-6: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Pimentel v. Aguirre, GR 132988, July 19, 2000, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2000/jul2000/gr_132988_2000.html
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