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MIDTERMS
SUBJECTS OF CONSTRUCTION (SCORED)
Statutes
Constitution
Ordinances
Resolutions
Executive Orders
Department Circulars
CONSTITUTION
 is a fundamental law or basis of government,
established by the people in their sovereign
capacity, to promote their happiness and to
secure their rights, property, independence and
common welfare.
 It is supreme, imperious, absolute and
unalterable except by the authority which it
emanates
 It is a supreme law to which all other laws must
conform in accordance with which all private
rights must be determined and all public
authority administered
 Doctrine of Constitutional Supremacy
Under the doctrine of constitutional
supremacy, if a law or contract violates any
norm of the constitution that law or contract
whether promulgated by the legislative or by
the executive branch or entered into by private
persons for private purposes is null and void
and without any force and effect. Thus, since
the Constitution is the fundamental, paramount
and supreme law of the nation, it is deemed
written in every statute and contract.
(Manila Prince Hotel v. GSIS, GR No. 122156)
COMMON PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION
 CONSTITUTION OF LIBERTY
fundamental, civil and political rights of the
people and imposes limitations in the exercise of
government powers if only to secure the enjoyment
of the civil and political rights of the people.
Article 3 - Bill of Rights
 CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT
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outlining the organization of the government,
enumerating the powers of the government, laying
down rules for its administration and defining the
illiterate.
Article 6 – Legislative Department
Article 7 – Executive Department
Article 8 – Judicial Department
Article 9 – Constitutional Commissions
 CONSTITUTION OF SOVEREIGNTY
outlines the process by which the Constitution
may be amended or revised.
Article 17 – Amendments or Revisions
KINDS OF CONSTITUTION
WRITTEN & UNWRITTEN
CUMULATIVE & CONVENTIONAL
RIGID & FLEXIBLE
STATUTE
 Written will of the legislature solemnly
expressed according to the forms necessary to
constitute a law of the state.
 Expression of the people thru representatives
STATUTE LAW
 Broader term, not only statues but also judicial
interpretation and application of such statutes
CLASSIFICATION OF STATUTES
According to Scope
1. Public – affects the public at large or the whole
community; It is a general classification of law,
consisting generally of constitutional, administrative,
criminal, and international law,concerned with the
organization of the state, the relations between the
state and the people who compose it, the
responsibilities of public officers of the state, to each
other, and to private persons, and the relations of
state to one another.
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a. General – applies to the whole state and

operates throughout the state alike upon all the
people or all of a class. It is one which embraces a
class of subjects or places and does not omit any
subject or place naturally belonging to such class.

b. Specific – relates to particular persons or

things of a class or to a particular community,
individual, or thing. It is designed for a particular
purpose, or limited in range or confined to a
prescribed field of action on operation.

c. Local – One whose operation is confined to a

specific place or locality instead of over the whole
territory of the state, e.g. municipal ordinance

2. Private – applies to a specific person or subject. It

defines, regulates, enforces and administers
relationships among individuals, associations and
corporations