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1. Explain the impeacment procedure of the president of the philipiines and other impeachable officials.

Impeachment in the Philippines is an expressed power of the Congress of the Philippines to formally charge a serving
government official with an impeachable offense. After being impeached by the House of Representatives, the official is then tried in
the Senate. If convicted, the official is either removed from office or censured.

Impeachment followed by conviction is often the only way to forcibly remove a sitting official. While "impeachment" is often used to
refer to the entire process of removing an official from office, it only formally refers to the indictment stage in the House of
Representatives, not the trial stage in the Senate. Under the current Constitution, an official can be impeached if one third of the
House of Representatives votes in favor. Since it takes only a simple majority to set the agenda or to adjourn the House, it can be
difficult for a minority of one third to bring a vote and impeach an official

Impeachable Philippine Officials

President of the Philippines

Vice-President of the Philippines
Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Members of the Constitutional Commissions:
Commission on Elections
Civil Service Commission
Commission on Audit
Ombudsman
Other officials can be removed from offices but not by impeachment:
those under the executive department may be dismissed by the president;
members of Congress can be expelled by two-thirds vote of the chamber the member is a part of;
local elected officials can be removed from office through recall.
In the 1935 and 1973 constitutions, the President, the Vice President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, and the
Auditor General were the impeachable officials

2. Discuss the Organizational structure of the philippine Government.

The Government of the Philippines, also known as the Philippine Government is the national government of
the unitary state of the Republic of the Philippines. It is a presidential, representative, and democratic republic where
the President of the Philippines is both the head of state and the head of government within a pluriform multi-party
system.
The government has three interdependent branches: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial
branch. The powers of the branches are vested by the Constitution of the Philippines in the following: Legislative
power is vested in the two-chamber Congress of the Philippinesthe Senate is the upper chamber and the House of
Representatives is the lower chamber.
Executive power is exercised by the government under the leadership of the President. Judicial power is vested in the
courts with theSupreme Court of the Philippines as the highest judicial body.
Legislative Department[edit]

The legislative power is vested in the Congress of the Philippines which consists of the Senate and House of
Representatives. The upper house is located in Pasay, while the lower house is located in Quezon City. The district
and sectoral representatives are elected for a term of three years. They can be re-elected but they may not run for a
fourth consecutive term.
Senators are elected to a term of six years. They can be re-elected but may not run for a third consecutive term. The
House of Representatives may opt to pass for a vacancy of a legislative seat, which leads to a special election. The
winner of the special election will serve the unfinished term of the previous district representative, and will be
considered as one elective term. The same rule also applies in the Senate, however it only applies if the seat was
vacated before a regular legislative election.
The current President of the Senate is Franklin Drilon, while the current Speaker of the House of
Representatives is Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.

Executive Department[edit]

The executive power is vested in the President of the Philippines. The executive branch is headed by
President Jasper Gabriel III of the Liberal Party. The President is also theCommander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
of the Philippines, and is elected by popular vote to a term of six years. The president then appoints his or
her cabinet over whom he or she presides. The executive seat of government is administered officially
from Malacaang Palace in Manila. The president may not run for re-election unless he or she had become president
through constitutional succession and had served for no more than four years.
The president is assisted by his or her cabinet that is made up of different departments and is headed by a secretary.
The president appoints the secretary with the consent of theCommission on Appointments.
The second highest official, Vice President Jejomar Binay of the PDP-Laban party is also elected by popular vote.
The Vice-President is first in line to succession if the President resigns, is impeached or dies. The Vice-President
usually, though not always, is a member of the president's cabinet. If there is a vacancy in the position of vicepresident, the President will appoint any member of Congress (usually a party member) as new vice-president. The
appointment must then be validated by a three-fourths vote of the Congress.[1]
Judicial Department[edit]

The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of the Philippines and lower courts established by law.
The Supreme Court, which has a Chief Justice as its head and 14Associate Justices, occupies the highest tier of the
judiciary. The justices serve until the age of 70. The justices are appointed by the president on the recommendation of
theJudicial and Bar Council of the Philippines.[2] The sitting Chief Justice is Maria Lourdes Sereno, the 24th to serve
in that position.
Other court types of courts, of varying jurisdiction around the archipelago, are the:
Lower Collegiate Courts:

Court of Appeals

Court of Tax Appeals

Sandiganbayan

Regular Courts:

Court of Appeals

Regional

Municipal Circuit Trial Courts

Muslim Courts

Sharia District Courts

Sharia Circuit Courts

Office of the Ombudsman[edit]

See also: Corruption in the Philippines
The government and all three of its branches are independently monitored by the office of the
Ombudsman (Filipino: Tanodbayan). The Ombudsman is given the mandate to investigate and prosecute any
government official allegedly guilty of crimes, especially Graft and Corruption. The Ombudsman is assisted by six
deputies: the Overall Deputy, the Deputy for Luzon, the Deputy for Visayas, the Deputy for Mindanao, the Deputy for
the Armed Forces, and the Special Prosecutor.
Administrative divisions[edit]
Main article: Administrative divisions of the Philippines

Local government hierarchy. The dashed lines emanating from the president means that the President only
exercises general supervision on local government.
The [Philippines has four main classes of elected administrative divisions, often lumped together as local government
units (LGUs). They are, from the highest to the lowest division:
1. Autonomous regions

2. Provinces (lalawigan, probinsiya) and independent cities (lungsod, siyudad/ciudad, dakbayan, lakanbalen)
3. Municipalities (bayan, balen, bungto, banwa) and component cities (lungsod, siyudad/ciudad, dakbayan,
lakanbalen)
4. Barangays (also known as barrio)
Beyond these, the national government groups provinces and independent cities intoregions, e.g. Metro Manila or
Region VI. The President has the prerogative to create, abolish and determine the composition of regions, which is
done so most often in consultation with the local government units affected, with the exception of autonomous
regions, where the residents of the local government units have to ratify in a plebiscite their inclusion in such a setup.