MC1

• What is a common adage used to describe Philippine elections?

  "No one loses, someone is just cheated"
• What form of government is currently practiced in the Philippines?

  Unitary Government
• Which issue involves the potential danger of the proposed federal system to economically unstable regions?

  Federalism
• What is a characteristic of political dynasties in the Philippines?

  They concentrate power within a family
• Which issue revolves around the proposed law aimed at achieving peace with the MILF?

  Issue on the Proposed Bangsamoro Law
• What transportation system is facing numerous issues and glitches in Metro Manila?

     a) Buses

     b) Taxis

     c) Jeeps

     d) MRT-3
• Which issue involves concerns about extrajudicial killings and human rights violations?

     a) Intellectual Property Rights

     b) Same-sex Marriage

     c) Backlog of Court Cases

     d) Human Rights Violation
• What issue concerns the legalization of same-sex marriage?

     a) Violent Election

     b) Issue on political dynasty

     c) Issue on same-sex marriage

     d) MRT-3 issues
• . What is the focus of recent intellectual property rights legislation in the Philippines?

     a) Protecting copyrighted books

     b) Protecting laboratory research results

     c) Protecting artwork in public spaces

     d) Protecting traditional knowledge

   
• What is a major challenge faced by the Philippine judiciary?

      a) Lack of legal qualifications among judges

      b) Excessive interference from the executive branch

      c) Backlog of court cases

      d) Overcrowded prisons
• According to the COA, what is the level of overcrowding in Philippine jails?

      a) 200%

      b) 300%

      c) 400%

      d) 511%
• Federalism: concept of power exercised by the national government; an opposite of the unitary government.
• Two set of organs in Federal Government?

  National Affairs and Local Affairs
• When was the 1987 Constitution approved and ratified?

  Feb. 2, 1987
• Who was the President when the 1987 Constitution was crafted, approved, and ratified?

  Pres. Corazon Cojuangco Aguino
• How many articles are there in the 1987 Constitution?

  17 Articles
• MRT: Metro Rail Transit
• To which is Philippines a signatory of?

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
• How many people were killed during the tenure of Duterte?

  4,800
• Same Sex Marriage: the marriage between the same sex
• Intellectual Property: refers to the written documents or sources which are produced the owner’s mental ability and skills when these properties are copyrighted and thereafter plagiarized copied, reproduced or sold for profit by someone without the copyright owners permission, a violation of the copyright’s law is committed.
• What is the law that aims to protect the results obtained in laboratories funded by the government?

  Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009, released in May 2012
• What is the total jail population in Dec. 31, 2016 according to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology?

  126,946
• RA 8293: Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines
• What law provides that there should be 100 positions of "Regional Trial Court Judges-at-Large" and 50 positions of "Municipal Court Judges-at-Large"?

  RA 11459
• Jail Congestion: refers to the overcrowding in prisons which means a jail institution accommodates more prisoners than its ideal capacity. 
• What law provides that it is the policy of the State to promote the general welfare and safeguard the basic rights of every prisoner incarcerated in our national penitentiary?

  The Bureau of Corrections Act of 2013, Sec. 2 (Declaration Of Policy)
• What is a rapid transit system that primarily serves Metro Manila,

  Philippines along with the Manila Light Rail Transit System and the Metro Commuter Line of the Philippine National Railways, the system

  makes up Metro Manila's rail infrastructure?

  Manila Metro Rail Transit System
• What is an urban rail transit system that primarily serves Metro Manila, Philippines?

  Manila Light Rail Transit System
• What corporations operates the LRT?

  1. Light Rail Transit Authority
  2. Light Rail Manila Corporation
• Who is the undersecretary of Transportation?

  Timothy John Batan
• Who are the tycoons that are studying the possibility of jointly competing for the rail way system of the Philippines?

  Manuel V. Pangilinan and Ramon Ang
• What is the name for the organizations and individuals that are communists?

  Red-tagging
• EU-Philippine Justice Support Programme [EPJUST]: to

  "help all stakeholders in the Philippines - in government, in the

  judiciary and in the Commission on Human Rights, and in civil society - to work together to address the critical issue of extra-legal killings and enforced disappearances."
• Presidential Human Rights Committee (PHRC): the "advisory body to the President in effectively addressing all human rights issues in the country." Its role and membership were strengthened in 2006.
• Bangsamoro: became the identity of a certain group of people, predominantly Muslims, but also including indigenous peoples called the ‘lumads’.
• Moro: Spaniards term for Muslims
• Bangsa: means Nation
• Homestead Program: the Philippine government went deeper into the colonisation of the lands of Mindanao by Christian Filipinos from outside the island, a process that had begun during the American era
• MNLF: Moro National Liberation Front