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Inherent Powers of
the State
Prop Funds
Safety
SIMILARITIES OF THESE POWERS

•They are inherent.

•They are indispensable.
SIMILARITIES OF THESE POWERS
• These are methods of the government to
interfere with private rights.
• They all presuppose an equivalent compensation for
the private rights interfered with.

• They are exercised primarily by the

legislative branch of the state.
LIMITATIONS OF THESE POWERS

• These powers can’t be exercised to trample

rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights

▪ Exercise of these powers are subject at all times to

the limitations and requirements of the constitution.
Police Power
Police Power
•Is the power to enact
and enforce the law
for regulation of public
order and welfare.
Police Power
Police Power:
Characteristics
•Police power is
considered the most
pervasive, the least
limitable and the most
demanding power.
 Police Power:
Characteristics
•Police power is
dynamic, not static and
must move with the
moving society it is
supposed to regulate
Police Power:
Characteristics
• Police Power may
sometimes use taxing
power as an implement for
the attainment of a
legitimate police objective
 Power of
Expropriation
Is the power to take private
property for public use.

Power of Expropriation
Power of Expropriation
Requisites on Expropriation
Necessity
Private Property
Just Compensation

Power of Expropriation
Power
of Taxation
 Power
of Taxation
Power to impose and collect
revenues for the operation of the
government for the people.
 Power
of Taxation
BIR is responsible of collecting,
assessing and imposing taxes to
be used for public operations of
the government.
 Power
of Taxation

The purpose of taxation is to raise

funds to support the government
and the services for the public.
 Power
of Taxation
The importance of taxation is derived
from the unavoidable obligation of the
government to protect the people and
extend benefits.
 Power
of Taxation
Inherent in sovereignty
Essentially legislative function

Nature
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