FINAL EXAM IN SOCSCI 2

Philippine History with Politics and Government

I. TRUE or FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if otherwise.

1. Political Science is the systematic study of the state and government.

2. The primary objective of political science curriculum is education for citizenship.
3. The concepts of philosophers like Plato and Socrates are important to the specialist in philosophy and
other political scientists.
4. A state is an ethnic concept while a nation is a political concept.
5. Government exist for the benefit of the common few.
6. The Preamble is composed of 76 words.
7. The senators and the congressman’s have a term of six years and subject for re-election.
8. The power of the government to legislate is vested in the Executive branch.
9. The Executive Department is co-equal with the Legislative and Judiciary department.
10. The President and the Vice President shall be elected by the members of Congress.
11. The President has the power to appoint and make laws in the country.
12. There are 68 associate justices which operate in twenty-three divisions each composed of three
members.
13. The Supreme Court is the lowest court of the land.
14. A citizen of the Philippines has some privileges that goes with one’s citizenship.
15. Suffrage includes all manner of decision-making by the people as provided in the Constitution.

II. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is being asked.

1. Legal status of a person acquired through being a citizen of a country.

2. Age needed for qualification to run for Senator.
3. A kind of monarchy in which the ruler rules in accordance with the constitution.
4. A kind of monarchy which the ruler rules by divine right.
5. A theory which attributes that the origin of the states came from the enlargement of the family.
6. It refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and carried out.
7. A community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of
territory, having a government of their own, to which a great body of inhabitants render obedience and
free from external control.
8. A form of government where the power is exercised by a few privileged class.
9. The total number of articles in the 1987 Philippine Constitution.
10. Total number of Senators elected nationwide.
11. Qualified age to run for President.
12. Qualified age to run for Congressman.
13. Way of acquiring citizenship where it focuses on the person’s parents as a citizen of a particular
country.
14. A form of government where the power is in the hands of the majority of the people.
15. It refers to the inhabitants living within the state.

III. ENUMERATION. Give what is being asked.

1-4 Elements of the State

5-7 Branches of Government
8-11 Theories on the Origin of the State
12-13 Two Kinds of Monarchy
14-15 Ways of Acquiring Citizenship
IV. Fill-in the blanks with the missing word/s.

PREAMBLE

We, the sovereign Filipino _______, imploring the aid of _________ God, in order to build a
______ and humane society and __________ a Government that shall ___________ our ideals and
__________, promote the common _______, conserve and develop our ___________, and secure to
ourselves and our _____________ the blessings of ______________ and democracy under the
________ of law and a _________ of truth, justice, freedom, love, __________ and peace, do ________
and promulgate this Constitution.

V. Give what is being asked.

Article I - _______________________________

Article II - _______________________________

Article III - _______________________________

Article IV - _______________________________

Article V - _______________________________

Article VI - _______________________________

Article VII - _______________________________

Article VIII - _______________________________

Article IX - _______________________________

Article X - _______________________________