TEXTBOOK ON THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
6. Judicial power vested in one Supreme Court and
SECTION 6
in lower courts .......................................................... 373 7. Organization of courts........................................................ 374 8. Quasi-judicial agencies ...................................................... 375 9. Importance of the judiciary ............................................... 375 10. Independence of the judiciary ........................................... 376
1. Administrative supervision over lower courts .................. 397
SECTION 7
1. Qualifications for members of the Supreme Court and any lower collegiate court......................................... 398 2. Authority of Congress to alter qualifications of certain constitutional officers ............................... 399 3. Qualifications of judges of lower courts ............................. 399 4. The administration of justice............................................. 400
SECTION 2
1. Power to apportion jurisdiction of various courts vested in Congress .................................................... 378 2. Jurisdiction of courts ......................................................... 378
SECTIONS 8-9
SECTION 3
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Appointment of members of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts ........................................ 402
1. Fiscal autonomy ................................................................ 379
SECTION 4
SECTION 10
1. Composition of the Supreme Court ................................... 381 2. Sitting procedure ................................................................ 381 3. Cases to be heard or decided en banc and vote required ............................................................. 382 4. Meaning of executive agreement ....................................... 383 5. Classes of executive agreements ....................................... 383 6. Meaning of power of judicial review.................................. 384 7. Limitations on exercise of power of judicial review.......... 384 8. Justiciable question distinguished from political question....................................................... 385 9. Controversy involving grave abuse of discretion.............. 386
1. Compensation of members of the judiciary....................... 404
SECTION 11
1. Tenure of office of members of the judiciary ..................... 405 2. Meaning of good behavior .................................................. 406 3. Disciplining or dismissal of judges of lower courts........... 407
SECTION 12
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Prohibition against designation to quasi-judicial and/or administrative agencies................................ 408
SECTION 5
SECTION 13
1. Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court over cases affecting ambassadors, etc. ...................................... 388 2. Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court over petitions for certiorari, etc. ................................................................ 388 3. Exclusive appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.......................................................... 389 4. Assignment of judges of lower courts to other stations.... 391 5. Change of venue or place of trial ....................................... 392 6. Rule-making power of the Supreme Court ....................... 392 7. Limitations on the rule-making power of the Supreme Court.......................................................... 395 8. Substantive and procedural law/rights distinguished ..... 395 9. Appointment of officials and employees ............................ 396
1. Procedure in rendering decisions ...................................... 408 2. Requirement in case of non-participation, dissent, or abstention ............................................................. 409
SECTION 14
1. Meaning of decision ............................................................ 410 2. Form of decision of court .................................................... 410
SECTION 15
1. Maximum periods for rendition of decisions .................... 412 2. Time limitations mandatory ............................................. 413
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