POLITICS DEPARTMENTS :

Executive Branch (article V!!/7)

-the head of executive branch is the president.  Department of Agriculture (DA)
- 6 years  Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)
-head of the state  Department of Budget and Management
-head of the government (DBM)
-comander in chief afp  Department of Education (DepEd)
-appoints officials to government positions  Department of Energy (DOE)
 Consuls  Department of Environment and Natural
 Ambassador Resources (DENR)
 Department  Department of Finance (DOF)
 Secretaries  Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
 Officials  Department of Health (DOH)
 Chief justice  Department of Information and
 Commissioner Communications Technology (DICT)
 CHED  Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG)
 COMELEC
 Department of Justice (DOJ)
President as :
 Department of Labor and Employment
Chief administrative –he is responsible to
(DOLE)
supervise and make decisions to national and
 Department of National Defense (DND)
local government .
 Department of Public Works and Highways
Chief diplomat –responsible for other countries
(DPWH)
relationship.
 Department of Science and Technology
Republic act
(DOST)
MO-memorandum order
 Department of Social Welfare and
EO-Excecutive order
Development (DSWD)
 Department of Tourism (DOT)
Qualifications to run or who wants to become
 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
a president:
 Department of Transportation (DOTr)
1.Natural born citizen of ph
2.able to read and write
LEGISTLATIVE BRANCH (Article VI/6)
3.atleast 40 yrs of age
-is to make pass and reappeal law
4.registered voter
-informal “congress “
5.not less than 10 years of residency in the ph.
Upper House-senate of the Philippines
Commission of appointment -mandated to act
Composed of :
to the appointment of the president .
24 senators –(majority ,minority)
12 members from the senate
senate president –sen.koko Pimentel
12 members from the representative
Lower House –house of representative
Compose of more or less 250 members
VIOLATION OF THE PRESIDENT ( might kick
20% party list system
out in position)
QUALIFIED
1.Culpable violation of constitution.
-congressman/congress woman
2.betrayal of public trust.
1.Natural born citizen of ph
3.graft and corruption.
2.able to read and write
4.treason
3.atleast 25 yrs of age
5.often high crimes
4.registered voter
5.not less than 1 years of residency in the ph.
Parts of a bill
Informal “congress”
Formal “house of representatives”
READINGS :
1st comitee on rules
-reads all the bill
- the bille dies when the comitte disagree
2/3 of votes to pass on 2nd and 3rd reading
2nd reading
2/3 of votes to pass on 3rd reading
3rd reading
2/3 of votes to pass on senate
Senate
3 readings
3seperate days-decide and evaluate more or
improve the bill
Executive branch
30 days
-president has VETO power –disapproval of
president
Classification of powers of Congress.
General Legislative Power – It is the power to
enact laws intended as rules of conduct to govern
the relations among individuals or between the
individuals and the State. Congress can enact any
law as long not contrary to the constitution.
Specific Powers – They are powers which the
Constitution expressly directs or authorizes
Congress to exercise like the power to choose who
shall become President in case two or more
candidates have an equal and highest number of
votes (Art. VII, Sec. 4, par. 4), to confirm certain
appointments by the President (Ibid., Sec. 16), to
promote social justice (Article XIII, Sec. 1), to
declare the existence of a state of war (Sec. 23), to
impose taxes (Sec. 28), to appropriate money
(Art. 29 [1]), to impeach (Art. XI, Sec. 2.), to act as
a constituent assembly (Art. XVII, Sec. 1), etc.;
Implied Powers – They are those essential or
necessary to the effective exercise of the powers
expressly granted, like-the power to conduct
inquiry and investigation in aid of legislation (Sec.
21), to punish for contempt, to determine the
rules of its proceedings (Sec. 16 [3]), etc.; and
a. Inherent Powers – They are the
powers which are possessed and can
be exercised by every government
because they exist as an attribute of
sovereignty.
JUDICIAL BRANCH (Article VII/8)
-to preserve their selves from vargaries of public
opinion .
-corrupting illegal payoff
1987 constitution (judicial independence)
1.judiciary’s security tenure
2.judicial self regulations
3.judiciary’s fiscal autonomy
4.appiontment on judge
5.impeachment
-if they have good behavior they will stay but if
they don’t the will be impeached.
Article 6 –Accountability of public officers
Retirement age of 70 yrs
-supreme court and banc entrusted –the can
impeach judge and appoint their own judge.
BASIS to appoint
-Civil service law –accordance that they can
appoint their own officials .
ADJUDICATORY POWER –one of the scope of
power o judiciary .
-in terms of right they have to enforced a right
that is legal ,demandable and enforceable by law
.
-cases involving grave abuse of discretion .
Decentralization –it is the process of
transferring of basic powers from national to
local government.
-the goal of decentralization is the local
government .
-composed of
provinces
cities (independent and component)
municipalities
communities
-in article 10
Nature of elections and political parties
Direct vote –the president as the chief executive
is elected by direct vote
Article 4 is about citizenship
Citizen-they are the members of democratic
community that enjoys civil and political rights.
Pardon-it is the act of grace of the president
(executive branch)
2 kinds of pardon
absolute –they can enjoy now their civil and
political rights
conditional –only certain years that they can Excecutive Legistlative Special power
enjoy their civil and political rights
-Power to -Veto power -comander in
Sectoral/Party-this represents the
execute law -delegated chief of all
urban,poor,women,youth,indigenous
-power to decree armed forces
communities and etc.
appoint authority -executive
Partylist 20 %
-control and -integrative clemency
-proportional election of representatives in the
supervision power -diplomatic
house representatives .
over the power
quorum -17th congress (legistlative branch)
executive
composed of 294 members . 148 needs in
branch
quorum to pass a bill.
-general
-the number of lawbody that has power to pass a
supervision
law or ordinances
over local
Constitution –it is the written instrument that
government
shows the fundamental powers of the
units
government.
-military
Political party – this are the group of people
powers
organized and has a goal to win via election.
-ordinance
making
NGO-non government organization
power
Social justice and human rights.
Article 2 section 23 –the state shall encourage
nongovernmental ,community based or sectoral
organization that promotes the welfare of the
nation.
Article 13 section 15-the state shall respect the
role of independent people’s organization to
enable people to pursue and protect within the
democratic framework ,their collective interest
and aspirations through peaceful and lawful
means.
Article 13 section 16- the right of the people
and their organizations to effective and
reasonable participation at all levels of social
,political and economic decision making shall not
be abridged .the state shall by law ,facilitate and
establishment of adequate consultation
mechanism.
Plebiscite –its about popular vote they want to
change a political structure.
Civil society –this refers to voluntary rule
abiding and political active sectors of society and
autonomous from the state.
Referendum- a popular vote regarding the
soundness of the law.
Candidate base voting –voters based at the
personality of the candidate rather than platform
or projects.

POWER OF THE PRESIDENT