Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Overview: This course will tackle International and Domestic laws that
create our National Security structure. In this survey, students will re-
examine the laws, executive orders, and jurisprudence that serve as the
documents that protect our sovereignty, people, government, and
territory. Students are also expected to understand current and
evolving threats to Philippine National Security as well as have an
exposure to our vulnerabilities in Cyber Security and National Disaster
Preparedness.
Phil. Consti Art. II Sec. 3 – Civilian Supremacy & Goals of the Military
Art. VII Sec. 18 – President is Commander-in-Chief
Art. XVI Sec. 5 (1-7) – Military limits and duties
Art. XVI Sec. 6 – Police Force must be civilian in Character
1. Carpio v. Executive Secretary, 1992
NATIONAL TERRITORY
WEEK TWO
LEGISLATIVE POWERS
EXECUTIVE POWERS
Emergency Powers
1. Lansang v. Garcia – Suspension of the Privilege of the Writ of
Habeas Corpus
2. David v. Arroyo, 2006 – Calling Out Power, Take Care Power (Can
Military implement law? No, merely suppress lawless violence).
Commander-in-Chief Powers
Martial Law
R.A. 7077
AFP Modernization
R.A. 7898 as amended by R.A. 10349
INTELLIGENCE
TERRORISM
WEEK THREE
Command Responsibility
1. Rubrico v. Arroyo, 2010
2. Balao v. Arroyo, 2011