QUIZ NO. 2

COMMONWEALTH CONSTITUTION

was originally _________ National Assembly with a president and vice president elected to six-year term without re-election.

• Unicameral

• Bicameral

• Tricameral

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, commonly referred to as _______?

• COOPER LAW

• PHILIPPINE INDEPENCE LAW

• JONES LAW

• Organic Act of 1902

Tydings-McDuffie Act, also known as the __________.

• Cooper Act

• Jones Law

• Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act

• Philippine Independence Act

In 1935 Commonwealth Constitution, the right to suffrage were originally afforded to male citizens of the Philippines who are _____ years of age and over.

• 21

• 22

• 23

• 24

•In_____ , Ferdinand E. Marcos as elected as president.

• 1967

• 1966

• 1965

• 1964

•Only the House of Representatives can initiate the impeachment of the president, members of the Supreme Court, and other constitutionally protected public officials such as the Ombudsman. The Senate will then try the impeachment case. This is another safeguard to promote moral and ethical conduct in the government.

• true

• false

Commonwealth constitution has been amended in 1940 to have unicameral Congress composed of a Senate and a House of representatives, as well as the creation of an independent electoral commission, limited the term of office of the president and vice president to four year, with one re-election.

• true

• false

COMMONWEALTH CONSTITUTION

was originally unicameral National Assembly with a president and vice president elected to six-year term without re-election.

• true

• false

President Corazon Aquino’s government had three options regarding the constitution: revert to the 1935 Constitution, retain the 1973 Constitution and be granted the power to make reforms, or start a new and break form the “vestiges of a disgraced dictatorship.”

• true

• false

•In March 1986, President Aquino proclaimed a transitional constitution to last for a year while a Constitutional Commission drafted a permanent constitution. This constitution, called the Fighter Constitution, maintained many provisions of the old one, including in rewritten form the presidential right to rule by decree.

• true

• false