CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1

Chapter 1 – General Considerations

1. What is the Constitution?

2. Which of these (oral and written) describes the 1987 Constitution?

3. Which describes the Malolos Constitution?

4. 1935?

5. 1973?

6. From a legal standpoint, is it really correct that all Constitution should be oral?

7. What country has an oral Constitution? [England]

9. Is there really a difference between the oral Constitution and the written Constitution?

10. Is it totally oral? Is it totally written?

11. Does it (an oral Constutition) include commentaries like Mr. Cooley (a political
commentator)? [Yes.] What about decisions of the Court? [Yes.]

12. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a written Constitution?

13. When you say constituent power, what do you mean by that?

14. Can the Constitution be amended? How is it amended?

15. Do you know about the concept about the supremacy of the Constitution? <- tell him
about it

16. Discuss Villavicencio v. Lukban.

17. Are these so-called prostitutes Filipino Citizens?

18. Their deportation from Manila, was it a judicial order? Where is the rule of law there?

19. What is chattel?

20. What is a State?

21. Can 1 million women be a people, which is an element of a State?

22. Can sovereignty be alienated? [No, because you cannot divide sovereignty.]

23. What is the meaning of imperium in imperio?

24. What will happen to a house divided? [It cannot stand.]

25. What is the national territory?

26. What are the requisites of the archipelagic doctrine?

27. Are the de jure and de facto governments the same? In your own words, what is the
difference?

28. Give me an example of a de jure government or a de facto government.

29. Why do you call the government established during the Second Philippine Republic a
de facto government?

30. Who was the President of the Second Philippine Republic?