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GENERAL PRINCIPLES
A. Political Law - that branch of public law which deals with the
organization and operations of the governmental organs of the
State and defines the relations of the State with the inhabitants of
its territory.
B. Scope/Divisions of Political Law
1. Constitutional Law The study of the maintenance of the
proper balance between authority as represented by the three
inherent powers of the State and liberty as guaranteed by the
Bill of Rights.
2. Administrative Law That branch of public law which fixes the
organization of government, determines the competence of the
administrative authorities who execute the law, and indicates
to the individual remedies for the violation of his rights.
3. Law on Municipal Corporations
4. Law on Public Officers
5. Election Laws
C. Basis of the Study
1. 1987 Constitution
2. 1973 and 1935 Constitutions
3. Other organic laws made to apply to the Philippines
4. Statutes, executive orders and decrees, and judicial decisions
5. U.S. Constitution
Classification:
a. Written or Unwritten
(i) Written one whose precepts are embodied in one document or
set of documents
(ii) Unwritten consists of rules which have not been integrated into a
single, concrete form but are scattered in various sources, such as
statutes of a fundamental character, judicial decisions,