Saturday, August 31, 2024

Executive agreements vs. Treaties

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"The President may generally enter into executive agreements subject to limitations defined by the Constitution and may be in furthera...

Power of Control of the President as the executor of the laws of the land

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"This Court has interpreted the faithful execution clause as an obligation imposed on the President, and not a separate grant of power....

Transcendental importance of case and locus standi of petitioners

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"Nevertheless, this Court finds that there is basis for it to review the act of the Executive for the following reasons. In any case, p...

Taxpayer's suit

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" The present petitions cannot qualify as citizens', taxpayers', or legislators' suits; the Senate as a body has the requis...

Legal standing or locus standi

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"While petitioners Saguisag  et. al ,do not have legal standing,they nonetheless raise issuesinvolving matters oftranscendental importa...

Actual case or controversy, ripe for judicial review.

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"Petitioners have shown the presence of an actual case or controversy. The OSG maintains[107] that there is no actual case or controver...

Power of judicial review

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"Even as we are left with no recourse but to bare our power to check an act of a coequal branch of government - in this case the execut...

President and Senate vis-a-vis foreign relations

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" The relationship between the  two major presidential functions  and the role of the Senate Clearly, the power to defend the State and...

Foreign relations and policies

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"The power and duty to conduct foreign relations. The President also carries the mandate of being the sole organ in the conduct of for...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Preventive suspension

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"Petitioner Yabut urges that his preventive suspension of 82 days should be credited to the penalty of 2-month suspension imposed on hi...

Public officers and employees

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" A public official, more especially an elected one, should not be onion skinned. Strict personal discipline is expected of an occupan...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Cause of action: failure to state vs. lack of...

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 "The complaint stated a cause of action against respondent companies To recall, there are two (2) sets of affirmative defenses raised ...