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Constitutional and Legal Basis For Philippine Fiscal Administration
Constitutional and Legal Basis For Philippine Fiscal Administration
Constitutional and Legal Basis For Philippine Fiscal Administration
Lloyd Bautista
2009
Elements of the State
State: community of people more or less numerous,
permanently occupying a definite territory, having a
government o which a great body of inhabitants
render obedience.
Sovereignty: supreme power of the state to command
and enforce obedience to its will from people within
its jurisdiction, and corollarily, to have freedom
from foreign control.
Government: aggregate of authorities that rule a society
Three Inherent Powers Of the State
1. Eminent domain: power to take private property
for public use upon paying just compensation
according to law.