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LEGISLATIVE EXECUTIVE JUDICIAL
1. General (plenary) Legislative Power
2. Power of Appropriation Power of the Purse while it is
thePresident who proposes the budget, still, th e final say on the
matterof appropriation is lodged in Congress.
3. Power of Taxation (including power to grant tax
exemptions)
4. Power of Legislative Investigation (Neri Case)
5. Oversight Power - Question Hour (Neri Case)
6. War Powers sole power to declare existence of war (by a vote
of2/3 of both houses in joint session assembled, voting
separately)
7. Power to act as Board of Canvassers in election of President
andVice-President
8. Power to call special election for President and Vice
President (incase of vacancy)
9. Power to be judge of Presidents physical fitness to discharge
the
functions of the Presidency (Estrada Case)
10. Power to revoke or extend suspension of the privilege of the
writof habeas corpus or declaration of martial law (by a majority
voteof all members of congress)
11. Power to concur in Presidential amnesties (by majority of
allmembers of congress)
12. Power to concur in treaties or international agreements (by
2/3 of
all members of the Senate)
13. Power to confirm certain appointments/nominations made by
thePresident (through the Commission on Appointment)
14. Power to define, prescribe, and apportion the jurisdiction
of
various courts but may not deprive the Supreme Court of
itsjurisdiction over cases enumerated in Section 5 Art. VIII.
15. Power of impeachment HR to initiate; Senate to try and
decide
16. Power with regard to natural resources congress may, by
law,
allow small-scale utilization of natural resources by
Filipino
citizens, as well as cooperative fish farming, with priority
tosubsistence fishermen and fishworkers in rivers, lakes, bays
andlagoons.
17. Power to propose amendments to the Constitution by of all
its
1. Executive Power
2. Appointing Power (including Removal Power)
3. Control Power
4. Take-care clause
5. Military Power
a. Power to command all the armed forces of the
Philippines
b. Power to suspend the privilege of writ of
habeas corpus
c. Power to proclaim martial law
6. Pardoning Power
7. Borrowing Power
8. Diplomatic Power
9. Budgetary Power
10. Informing Power
11. Other Powers
a. To call the Congress to special session
b. To approve or veto bills
c. To consent to the deputization of govt.personnel by
COMELEC
d. To discipline its deputies
e. To exercise emergency and tariff powers (by
delegation)
f. General supervision over local governmentsand autonomous
regional governments
1. Judicial power-
a. Traditional: to settle actual controverrights which are
legally demandable and
b. Broadened: to determine whether or not
a grave abuse of discretion amounting to of jurisdiction on the
part of an
instrumentality of the Government;
2. Powers of the Supreme Court Refer to Art. V
