POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

CABIAO CAMPUS
FINAL EXAMINATION

POSC : Philippine Politics and Governance, with Philippine Constitution

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I. IDENTIFICATION
Identify the terms and concepts described below. Write your answers on the space provided
before the number.
1. It is a “term denoting membership of a citizen in a political society”
2. Refers to “a member of a democratic community who enjoys full civil and
political rights, and is accorded protection inside and outside the territory of the
State”
3. A foreigner in another country whose state has been dissolved due to anarchy
or revolution
4. A citizen of a country who is residing in or passing through another country”. He
enjoys civil rights but not political rights.
5. Under this principle, the blood of the parents is the basis for the acquisition of
citizenship and not the territory or the country where the baby was born.
6. Under this principle, the law of the soil or the place of birth determines the
citizenship of the child regardless of the citizenship or blood of one or both
parents.
7. It is defined as an ‘act of formality adopting a foreigner into the political body of
the state and clothing him or her with rights and privilege of citizenship”
8. It refers to “those who are citizens of the Philippines from birth without having
to perform any act to acquire or perfect their Philippine citizenship”
9. Person who are citizens by operation of law.
10. Refers to the act when a citizen gives up or losses his citizenship.
11. Lost citizenship may be reacquired and the act is known as ____________.
12. Refers to “the right and obligation to vote for qualified citizens in the election of
certain national and local officers of the government and in the decision of
public questions submitted to the people”
13. A process wherein innumerable number of public officials are selected by the
sovereign people at regular periods to exercise the political authority in the
name of the people and for the people.

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 14. It is the process by which the voters choose their officials for definite and fixed
terms as their duly chosen representatives in exercising their sovereign power in
the government.
15. The constitutional commission tasked by the constitution to conduct and
supervise elections
16. The process by which the people express their choice for or against a proposed
law or enactment submitted to them.
17. This is a process by which a law or part thereof passed by Congress or local
legislative body is presented to the voters for their ratification or rejection.
18. This is a process by which the people directly propose and enact new laws. This
requires a petition containing the proposed law or amendment of the
constitution and the required number of verified signatures of petitioners.
19. The process by which an elected official is removed from office during his/her
tenure by a vote of the people after registration of a petition signed by a
required percentage of the qualified voters.
20. An organized group of individuals who agree on common political principles and
platforms in seeking to control the powers of government to serve national
interest and to enjoy the benefits derived from such control.

II. MODIFIED MATCHING TYPE

Match the items in the box to the concepts /descriptions below. Write your answers on the space
provided before the number.

Competitive Electioneering Decentralization

Sandiganbayan Ombudsman Human resource
Treason Commission on Audit Impeachment
Local government Equity Unfair Competition
Growth Local autonomy public utility
Indirect bribery National Patrimony Civil service commission
Profession Collective bargaining Social justice
political party Civil service Recall of officers.

1. This term refers to that professionalized body of men and women who have
made of the government service a lifetime career.
2. An independent centralized agency having direction and control over the civil
service system and empowered to enforce civil service legislations.
3. A constitutional classification of positions in the civil service whose
appointments are made according to merit and fitness to be determined by
competitive examinations.

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4. Refers to acts designed to promote the candidacy of a person or persons to
public office.
5. It is defined as voluntary organization of citizens advocating certain principles
and policies for the general conduct of government.
6. An independent body established to see to it that the government revenues and
expenditures are duly accounted for.
7. The term which refers to a political subdivision of a nation or state which is
constituted by law and has substantial control of local affairs, with officials
elected or otherwise locally selected.
8. The exercise of certain basic powers like police power, taxation power and
power of eminent domain by local government units so as to best serve the
interest and promote the general welfare of their inhabitants.
9. The process of transferring basic powers from the national to the local
governments to allow maximum participation of the citizens in governmental
and community activities.
10. The legal process by which the registered voters of a local government unit
remove elective local officials.
11. It means the power to oversee the performance of work by a person or group of
persons and coordinate their activities in the implementation of an instruction
or policies.
12. A method of national inquest into the conduct of public men.
13. It is a crime committed by any person, who owing allegiance to the Philippines
levies war against the government or adheres to its enemies, giving them aid
and comfort within the Philippines or elsewhere.
14. The offense committed by any public officer who shall accepts gifts offered to
him by reason of his office.
15. The anti-graft court that have jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases involving
graft and corrupt practices and such other offenses committed by public officers
and employees in relation to their offices as may be determined by law.
16. The public official mandated to act promptly on complaints filed in any form or
manner against public officials and employees and in appropriate cases, notify
the complainants of the action taken and the results thereof.
17. A business organization which regularly supplies the public with some
commodity or service as electricity, gas, water, transportation etc.
18. The most critical sources of economic growth, the active factors of development
that utilize through their labor and the passive factors to produce goods and
services needed by the growing economy.
19. One of the threefold goals of the national economy which refers to a more
equitable distribution of opportunities, income and wealth.
20. A sustained increase in the amount of goods and services produced by the
nation for the benefit of the people.

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 21. A calling which requires the passing of an appropriate gov.t board or bar
examination such as law, medicine, engineering, etc.
22. Refers primarily to the natural resources of our country which under the
constitution include all lands of the public domain, waters, materials, coal,
petroleum, etc.
23. The unjust appropriation of, or injury to, the goodwill or business reputation of
another.
24. It is defined as bargaining by an organization of workers through a
representative of their own choosing with the employer.
25. The adoption by the state of measures that guarantee the right of every people
to equality of opportunity in all fields of human endeavor and to equitable
sharing of the fruits of social and economic development.
26. The commission created under the constitution that investigate all forms of
violations involving civil and political rights of person or group of persons. CHR

III. TRUE OR FALSE

Write T if the statement is correct and F if the statement is wrong. Write your answer on the
space provided before the number.

1. Both a stateless person and an alien are not subject to our laws.
2. The state also gives protection to resident aliens called foreigners or aliens passing through its
territory.
3. In jus sanguinis, the children follow the citizenship of their mother only.
4. In jus loci, when a child is born in any part of the territory of the country be it in aerial,
terrestrial, or maritime domain, he or she automatically becomes a citizen of that country.
5. Those who are considered citizens of the Philippines under the 1987 Constitution at the time of
the adoption of the new constitution on February 2, 1987 are citizens by operation of law.
6. Aliens or foreigners who acquired Filipino citizenship by applying and complying with all
requirements provided in the Philippine naturalization law are natural born citizens.
7. A foreigner can be conferred citizenship by a law enacted by Congress.
8. A person can still be a Filipino citizen even if s/he has become a green card holder or has
become an American.
9. A person losses his citizenship through a declaration by a competent authority of being a
deserter from the arm forces of another country.
10. Promotion of Individual welfare means the provision of such essential services such as
infrastructure development, health care and sanitation, education, economic progress and
stability and other equally important services conducive to general welfare.
11. Direct election is an act of choosing public officials by the representative of the people.
12. Suffrage is not a natural right but a privilege so it is mandatory to everyone to exercise this right.
13. Only citizens of the state have the right to exercise suffrage.
14. Suffrage was premised on the economic status of the voter. Today one of the requirements of
suffrage is ownership of land property.

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15. Nowadays, candidate’s personal organization do most of the dirty works in the election.
16. The congress may abolish the three constitutional commissions (COA, CSC, COMELEC)
17. All commissioners of the constitutional commissions are not allowed to engage in the practice of
their professions.
18. The decisions on election contests involving elective municipal and barangay officials are not
appealable to the supreme court.
19. The president exercises only delegated legislative power over local government
20. The president has no power to interfere in the operation of the local governments except as
otherwise provided by law.
21. Local governments are not entitled to an equitable share in the proceeds of the utilization and
development of the national wealth within their respective areas.
22. Members of the constitutional commission cannot be removed from office by impeachment.
23. The senate shall have the exclusive power to initiate all cases of impeachment.
24. The president entering to an agreement with foreign corporation for large scale exploration,
utilization of minerals, petroleum is unconstitutional.
25. All minerals, coal, oil, gold, etc. found in public and even in private lands are owned by the state.
26. The constitution does not limit the practice of all professions in the Philippines to Filipinos.
27. The theory that the owner has absolute right over his property is no longer recognized.
28. The right to strike of workers, even though the use of force or violence shall be protected by the
state.
29. All agricultural lands of public domain are inalienable.
30. The commission on human rights can investigate all forms of human rights violation even in the
absence of any complaint.

ENUMERATION
A. Role of government in relation to citizens (2)
B. Role of citizens to the state (5)
C. Ways by which a candidate is nominated for public office (5)
D. Institutions of direct democracy (4)
E. Methods for resolving labor disputes. (2)
F. Nature of public office (3)
G. Classification of lands of the public domain (4)

Prepared by :

Romeo C. De Guzman

Instructor