Power to promote and protect the general welfare.

Must essential, consistent and illimitable which enables the state to prohibit all hurtful
POLICE POWER things to the comfort, safety, and welfare of the society.
Based on necessity as without it, there can be no government.
Referred to as Law of OVERWHELMING NECCESITY.
 Basic Principle of
SALUS POPULI EST
SUPREMA LEX (The
welfare of the people
is the Supreme Court)
 Basic Principle of SIC The basis of exercise of the Police Power of the State.
UTERE TU ET
ALIENUM NON
LAEDAS (So use your
property so as not to
impair another)
Called the POWER OF EXPROPRIATION.
Power of the state that enables it to forcibly acquire private property, which is intended for
public use, upon the payment of just compensation.
POWER OF EMINENT Based on political necessity, it is inseparable from the state unless it is denied to it by its
DOMAIN fundamental law.
Described as the “HIGHEST AND MOST EXACT IDEA OF PROPERTY REMAINING IN THE
GOVERNMENT” that may be acquired for some public purposes through a method “in the
nature of compulsory sale to the state”.
The full and fair equivalent of the property taken from the private owner by the
JUST COMPENSATION expropriator.
The measure of this is not the taker’s gain but the owner loss.
Power of the state to raise revenues to defray the expenses of the government or for any
public purposes.
Done through the imposition of burdens or imposition on person’s property, services,
occupation, or transactions.
POWER OF TAXATION
Its importance derives from the unavoidable obligation of the government to protect the
people and extend the benefits in the form of public projects and services.
Based on necessity and reciprocal duties of protection and support between the state and
those that are subject to its authority.
CONGRESS Who may exercise the power of taxation?
A group of people that governs a community or unit.
It sets and administers public policy and exercises executive, political and sovereign power
GOVERNEMENT
through customs, institutions, and laws within the state.
Those who have authority or control over others.
All or most of the power is in the hands of one person. KING, QUEEN or EMPEROR
MONARCHY
The power is hereditary.
The government is under the control of one person.
DICTATORSHIP Takes power by force rather than inheriting power.
Often were members of the military or police.
No limits on power.
Power is shared by all of the people.
DEMOCRACY
“Government by the people.”
All property is publicly owned.
COMMUNIST STATES Each person paid based on their needs, not their abilities.
All are working for the good of overall country.
ANARCHY No government.
 Often occurs after war.
Greek for “without ruler”
ANARCHY
State of disorder.
THEOCRACY A form of government in which country is ruled by religious leader.
REPUBLIC OF THE
Official name of the country.
PHILIPPINES
KING PHILIP II OF
SPAIN Origin of name.
(1527-1596)
CITY OF MANILA Capital
LUZON
VISAYAS Island groups.
MINDANAO
7, 641 Number of Islands
Administrative divisions that serves primarily to organize the provinces for administrative
REGIONS
convenience.