PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!

Constitution - ANSWER-body of rules and principles in accordance with which the powers of sovereignty are regularly exercised. PURPOSE OR FUNCTION OF CONSTITUTION - ANSWER-1) Serves as the supreme or fundamental law 2) Establishes basic framework and underlying principles of government 3) Designed to protect the basic rights of the people Written, Unwritten - ANSWER-Kinds of Constitution (as to their form) written constitution - ANSWER-One which has been given definite written form at a particular time, usually by a specially constituted authority called a "constitutional convention" unwritten constitution - ANSWER-The body of political practices developed through custom and tradition or political evolution Conventional or enacted Cumulative or evolved - ANSWER-Kinds of Constitution (As to their origin and history) Conventional or enacted - ANSWER-One which is enacted by a constituent assembly or granted by a monarch to his subjects like the Constitution of Japan in 1889 Cumulative or evolved - ANSWER-Like the English Constitution, one which is the product of a growth or a long period of development originating in customs, traditions, judicial decisions, etc., rather than from a deliberate and formal enactment. Rigid or inelastic flexible or elastic - ANSWER-Kinds of Constitution (As to manner of amending them) Rigid or inelastic - ANSWER-One regarded as a document of special sanctity which cannot be amended or altered easily Flexible or elastic - ANSWER-One which possesses no higher authority than ordinary laws and which may be altered in the same way as other laws The Philippine Constitution - ANSWER-- is classified as conventional, written, and rigid or inelastic - It was drafted by an appointive body called "Constitutional Commission". Requisites of a good written Constitution (as to form) - ANSWER-a.) Brief b.) Broad c.) Definite Requisites of a good written Constitution (as to provisions) - ANSWER-the constitution of government. (framework, electorate) the constitutio