MIDTERM EXAMINATION

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

I. ENUMERATION

1-10. State ten (10) departments under the Office of the President.
11-12. State the two (2) principal subdivisions of administrative law.
13-15. State the three (3) branches of the government.
16-18. State the three (3) independent Constitutional Commissions created by the 1987 Philippine
Constitution.
19-20. What consists the Office of the President?

II. IDENTIFICATION

_______________1. The aggregate of authorities which rule a society.

_______________2. Aggregate of those persons in whose hands the reigns of the government are
entrusted by the people for the time being.
_______________3. It is the function of the Legislative Department.
_______________4. It is the function of the Judicial Department.
_______________5. It is the function of the Executive Department.
_______________6. It is an organ of the government other than a court and other than a
legislature, which affects the rights of private parties through either
adjudication or rule-making.
_______________7. Executive department created by law.
_______________8. Who has the authority and responsibility for the exercise of the mandate of the
department and for the discharge of its powers and functions?
_______________9. It refers to any principal subdivision or unit of any department.
_______________10. The head of a Bureau.
_______________11. The head of a Regional Office.
_______________12. It refers to the entire machinery of the Central Government.
_______________13. It refers to the political subdivisions established by or in accordance with the
constitution.
_______________14. Officers charged with the administration of government.
_______________15. Officers charged with the administration of justice.

III. ESSAY

1. Explain the Alter-Ego Doctrine. (5 points)

2. Explain the Power of the President to Reorganize the Executive Department. (5 points)
3. What is the test whether the reorganization made by the President is valid? Explain. (5 points)