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Pelaez Vs Auditor General - Case Digest
Pelaez Vs Auditor General - Case Digest
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Facts:
Book Cheapest Room The President of the Philippines, purporting to act pursuant to Section 68 of the
Revised Administrative Code, issued Executive Orders Nos. 93 to 121, 124 and 126 to
129; creating thirty-three (33) municipalities enumerated in the margin. Petitioner
Emmanuel Pelaez, as Vice President of the Philippines and as taxpayer, instituted the
present special civil action, for a writ of prohibition with preliminary injunction, against
the Auditor General, to restrain him, as well as his representatives and agents, from
passing in audit any expenditure of public funds in implementation of said executive
orders and/or any disbursement by said municipalities.
Petitioner alleges that said executive orders are null and void, upon the ground that said
Section 68 has been impliedly repealed by Republic Act No. 2370 effective January 1,
1960 and constitutes an undue delegation of legislative power. The third paragraph of
Section 3 of Republic Act No. 2370, reads: “Barrios shall not be created or their
boundaries altered nor their names changed except under the provisions of this Act or
› Constitutional Law 1 The President shall have control of all the executive departments, bureaus, or offices,
› de facto government exercise general supervision over all local governments as may be provided by law, and
take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
› de jure government
› Declaration of Principles and State The power of control under this provision implies the right of the President to interfere
in the exercise of such discretion as may be vested by law in the officers of the
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executive departments, bureaus, or offices of the national government, as well as to act
› Declaratory Relief
in lieu of such officers. This power is denied by the Constitution to the Executive,
› Doctrine of Immunity from Suit insofar as local governments are concerned. With respect to the latter, the fundamental
› Doctrine of Incorporation law permits him to wield no more authority than that of checking whether said local
› Doctrine of Non-suability governments or the officers thereof perform their duties as provided by statutory
enactments. Hence, the President cannot interfere with local governments, so long as
› Doctrine of Parens Patria
the same or its officers act within the scope of their authority.
› Due Process Clause
› Equal Protection Clause
› Equal Protection of the Law
› Facial Challenge
› Impeachment
› Self Executing
› Separation of Power
› Theory of Auto-Limitation
› Transcendental Importanct
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