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Political Law — 2022
Every Political Law question from the 2022 Bar, traced to the statutes, cases and Supreme Court doctrines it tests. Open any question for the facts, the mapped authorities, and the ALAC model answer.
The 2022 Political Law questions
Questions are public-domain (Supreme Court Bar examinations). Each ALAC model answer is AI-drafted from landmark authorities and refined with every round of verification.
1. A police officer saw Harvey urinating in public. A local ordinance imposes a Php 500.00 fine for urinating in public. The police officer shouted at Harvey: “That is against the law!” Harvey sarcast…
2. Pedro was the accused in a rape case. During the trial, the private complainant testified that on the night of the incident, she was walking home when Predro, who was her neigbhor, suddenly grabbed…
3. A city ordinance was passed providing for the removal, at the owner’s expense, of: (i) all outdoor advertising materials displayed or exposed to the public in designated regulated areas such as res…
4. [This item has two questions.] As a reaction to China’s occupation of the Spratly Island, a rally was organized by various civil society aggrupations at a vacant privated lot. Before the event coul…
5. The K-12 Law was passed with the objective to enhance the Philippine educational system by strengthening its curriculum and adding two years of highschool. Parents of students in a science high sch…
6. President Hidalgo, who wanted the Philippines to be part of the International Criminal Court once again, signed the Philippines' ratification of the Rome Statute. A copy of the treaty, along with t…
7. After Martial Law was declared over Mindanao, police officers arrested Jose Maria without any warrant while shopping for groceries at a supermarket in Mindanao. Jose Maria questioned the validity o…
8. A law was passed exempting the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) from the payment of filing fees in collection cases on loans granted by LBP to its borrowers. The Office of the Court Administrator…
9. During a press conference, President Acosta explained that the Executive Department can temporarily take over the operation of any privately owned public utility or business affected with public in…
10. Lemuel was born in 1988 to a Filipino mother and an American father, as shown in his birth certificate. His parents, however, were not married to each other. Subsequently, his father petitioned fo…
11. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) directed higher education institutions to remove materials “that contain pervasive ideologies of CommunistTerrorist Groups” from their libraries. Accordin…
12. The Congress passed a law prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcoholic drinks within 100 meters from religious and educational institutions. A city enacted an ordinance increasing the covera…
13. Pursuant to a law ordering the fixing of “just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, or services to be furnished, observed and imposed by operators of public utility v…
14. A foreign commercial ship was spotted by the Philippine Coast Guard dumping garbage and toxic waste 20 nautical miles from Nasugbu, Batangas, the nearest coastline of the Philippines. The officers…
15. [This item has two questions.] Philippine Medical Center (PMC) is a government hospital created by law to provide healthcare to the general public, especially the less fortunate. To enable PMC to …