POLITICS 2

• Judicial Power


  The power to settle controversies
• Appointment of judicial branch

  • President appoints, they should be eligible
  • Judicial and BAR council will pick the people who is eligible to appoint
• Qualifications for judicial branch

  • Natural born Filipino
  • At least 40 years old
  • Judge in the lower court for 15 years
  • Member of the Philippine BAR
• Circuit court


  • Regional
  • Reclusion Perpetua
• Jurisdiction

  Authority over the court
• Writ of Habeas Corpus


  Protect from legal imprisonment
• Obligations of the Citizen

  • Be loyal to our republic, take pride as a citizen
  • Love and Defend the country
  • Be ready to sacrifice and defend our country
  • Contribute to the development of the welfare and the state
  • Uphold our constitution and obey our laws
  • Exercise our rights
• Suffrage


  The right and obligation to vote
• RA 9189


  Overseas absentee voting
• Qualifications for overseas absentee voting

  • Registered voter
  • 18 age national registered
  • Not imprisoned
  • Not mentally ill
  • Resident of the Philippines for at least 1 year
• Absentee voting


  Citizens who live in other country
• Administrative divisions


  • Provinces
  • Municipalities
  • Barangay
• RA 7160


  Local Government Code of 1981
• Plebiscito


  Local Autonomy, the exercise of certain basic power
• The author of the 1992 Local Autonomy was the Mindanaoans
• IRA means individual retirement account
• President


  Supervisory Power
• House of Representatives has 150 members elected every three years through preferential voting system.
• Search warrant


  A document signed by a magistrate giving law enforcement officers the authority to search a specified place for specific items that are particularly described in the warrant
• Arrest warrant


  A legal document issued by a judge or a court that authorizes the arrest or detention of a person
• En banc


  The special procedure where all judges of a particular court hears a case
• In-Flagrante Delicto Arrests


  A person can be arrested without a warrant if, in the presence of the police officer, the person has committed, is actually committing, or is attempting to commit an offense
• Probable Arrest

  The police officer knows facts that would make any reasonable person think that the suspect has committed or is committing a crime
• Re-arrest


  To arrest someone who has committed a crime for a second time
• The Miranda rights


  You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you
• Plunder


  Steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder
• Defamation


  The action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel
• Bill of attainder


  A piece of legislation that declares a party is guilty of a crime. Bills of attainder allow the government to punish a party for a perceived crime without first going through the trial process