Political Law Syllabus 2021
Political Law Syllabus 2021
Political Law Syllabus 2021
N. Term limits
XIII. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
A. Autonomous Regions and their relation
XI. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW to the National Government
A. General principles B. Public corporations
B. Administrative agencies 1. Concept; distinguished from Government-
C. Powers of administrative agencies Owned or Controlled Corporations
1. Rule-making power 2. Classifications
a. Kinds of administrative rules and regulations a. Quasi-corporations
b. Requisites for validity b. Municipal corporations
2. Adjudicatory power i. Elements
a. Administrative due process ii. Nature and functions
b. Administrative appeal and review iii. Requisites for creation, conversion, division,
c. Administrative res judicata merger or dissolution
C. Principles of local autonomy
3. Fact-finding, investigative, licensing, and D. Powers of local government units
rate-fixing powers 1. General welfare clause
2. Eminent domain
D. Judicial review 3. Taxing power
1. Doctrine of primary administration 4. Closure and opening of roads
jurisdiction 5. Legislative power
2. Doctrine of exhaustion of administrative a. Requisites for a valid ordinance
remedies b. Local initiative and referendum
3. Doctrine of finality of administrative action 6. Ultra vires acts
7. Corporate powers
XII. ELECTION LAW 8. Liability of local government units
9. Settlement of boundary disputes
A. Suffrage
10. Local officials
1. Qualification and disqualification of voters a. Vacancies
2. Registration and deactivation of voters b. Discipline
3. Inclusion and exclusion proceedings i. Elective officials
4. Local and overseas absentee voting (a) Grounds
5. Detainee voting (b) Jurisdiction
(c) Preventive suspension
(d) Removal
B. Political parties (e) Administrative appeal
1. Jurisdiction of the Commission on Elections (f) Doctrine of condonation
over political parties ii. Appointive officials
2. Registration of political parties 11. Recall
12. Term Limits
C. Candidacy
1. Qualification and disqualification of XIV. NATIONAL ECONOMY AND
candidates
2. Filing of certificates of candidacy
PATRIMONY
a. Effect of filing
A. Exploration, development, and utilization b. Procedure
of natural resources c. Distinguished from deportation
B. Franchises, authorities, and certificates L. International human rights law
for public utilities 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. International Covenant on Civil and Political
C. Acquisition, ownership, and transfer of
Rights
public and private lands 3. International Covenant on Economic, Social
D. Practice of professions and Cultural Rights
E. Organization and regulation of private M. International humanitarian law
and public corporations 1. Categories of armed conflicts
F. Monopolies, restraint of trade, and unfair 2. Core of international obligations of States
competition 3. Principles of international humanitarian law
a. Treatment of civilians
b. Prisoners of war
XV. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND 4. Law on neutrality
HUMAN RIGHTS
A. Concept of social justice N. Law of the sea
B. Economic, social, and cultural rights 1. Baselines
C. Commission on Human Rights 2. Archipelagic waters
1. Powers a. Straight archipelagic baselines
2. Composition and qualification of members b. Archipelagic waters
c. Archipelagic sea lanes passage
d. Regime of islands
XVI. EDUCATION, SCIENCE, 3. Internal waters
TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE 4. Territorial sea
AND SPORTS 5. Contiguous zone
6. Exclusive economic zone
A. Academic freedom 7. Continental shelf
8. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
XVII. PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL
LAW O. International environmental law
A. Concepts 1. Principle 21 of Stockholm Declaration
B. Relationships between international and 2. Precautionary principle
Philippine domestic law
C. Sources of international law
1. Article 38. International Court of Justice
Statute
2. Effect of United Nations Declarations,
Security Council Resolutions
3. Effect of actions of organs of international
organizations created by treaty
D. Subjects of international law
1. States
2. International organizations
3. Individuals
4. Others
E. Jurisdiction of States
1. Basis of jurisdiction
a. Territoriality principle
b. Nationality principle and statelessness
c. Protective principle
d. Universality principle
e. Passive personality principle