Practice question
A proposed component city consists of islands and invokes the land-area exception. Its sponsors then claim the exception also eliminates income certification, other applicable substantive criteria, legislation and plebiscite. Which is best?
- The exception is limited to land area and does not itself dispense with the remaining legal framework
- The exception automatically creates the city without any further act
- Every island becomes a city on request
- One island exception repeals the Constitution
- Only the sponsors’ resolution is needed
Legal references
- RA 11683: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2022/ra_11683_2022.html; amended Section450(b)-(c).
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; ArticleX Section10.
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