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Practice question: Nationality and Citizenship Requirements

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A qualifying public utility corporation has a ten-member governing body and forty percent genuine foreign capital, with all shares of one ordinary voting class. Five governing-body members are foreign. No exception applies. Which Section 11 issue arises?
  1. Foreign participation is unlimited once the capital threshold is met.
  2. Five of ten exceeds the proportionate forty-percent foreign capital share.
  3. Only the corporation’s logo matters.
  4. Every director must automatically be a government employee.
  5. The Constitution requires exactly fifty percent foreign directors.

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article XII, Section 11.

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