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No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
A person must be a native-born citizen at least 35 years of age and a resident of the united states for at least 14 years.The Vice President is elected for a term of four years. that determines the presidency. The Vice President does not have to be a native born citizen at all! But it does have to be a resident of the united states for atleast 7 years and must be at least 30 years of age. The Vice president also is the President of the Senate but doesnt do anything unless called upon for a tie otherwise a the Presidentel tempro acts as President of Senate. The person who has the power to nominate the vice president if it does not have enough electoral votes is the Senate majorit. According to the twelfth amendment of the Constitution, "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of VicePresident of the United States."

2.The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President [14] of the United States. The Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from ever being elected to the presidency for a third full term. It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president. In all, 43 [15] individuals have served 55 four-year terms. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the forty-fourth and current president.

The president's six-year term begins at noon on the thirtieth day of June following the election and ends at noon of the same date six years thereafter. He/she may no longer run for re-election, unless he/she becomes president through constitutional succession and has served for no more [1 than four years as president.

3. The official residence of the President of the Philippines is Malacaang Palace (Filipino: Palasyo ng Malakanyang), often known as Malacaang. It is located along the north bank of the Pasig River inManila, with the mailing address: Malacaang Palace, JP Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila NCR 1005. In everyday parlance and in the media, the office of the President is often referred to simply as "Malacaang". Malacaang Palace is depicted on the verso (back) side of the present-day 20-peso bill.

4. Pres. can serve only 1 term, that is 6 years, unless one succeeded outgoing, then its more
than 6 years. or if successful in indorsing the chacha, forever. The president's six-year term begins at noon on the thirtieth day of June following the election and ends at noon of the same date six years thereafter. He/she may no longer run for re-election, unless he/she becomes president through constitutional succession and has served for no more than four years as president

5. Suspension and Disqualification Manner of Imposing Discipline Section 16(3), Article VI of the Constitution provides the manner in which members of the Senate may be disciplined, suspended or expelled. It provides as follows:

Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its Members, suspend or expel a Member. A penalty of suspension, when imposed, shall not exceed sixty days.
Rules of proceedings are needed for the orderly conduct of the sessions of Congress. Unless such rules violate fundamental or individual rights, they are within the exclusive discretion of each House to formulate and interpret and may not be judicially reversed. Without the above provision, the authority to discipline its members can still be exercised by each House as an inherent power, with the concurrence of a majority vote, conformably to the general rule on the will of the majority. With this provision, the disciplinary power is not so much expressly conferred as limited because of the specific conditions laid down for its proper exercise. Thus, the courts may annul any expulsion or suspension of a member that is not concurred in by at least two-thirds of the entire body or any suspension meted out by the legislature, even with the required twothirds vote, as to any period in excess of the 60-day maximum duration. These are procedural matters and therefore justiciable. But the interpretation of the phrase "disorderly behavior" is the prerogative of Congress and cannot as a rule be judicially reviewed. The matter comes in the category of a political question. Accordingly, the Supreme Court did not interfere when the legislature declared that the physical assault by one member against another, or the delivery of a derogatory speech which the member was unable to substantiate, constituted "disorderly behavior" and justified the adoption of disciplinary measures. Other disciplinary measures besides expulsion and suspension are deletion of unparliamentary remarks from the record, fine, imprisonment and censure, sometimes called "soft impeachment."

6. The president heads the executive branch of the government, which includes the Cabinet and all executive departments. The executive power, as such, is vested on the President alone.

The president exercises general supervision over local government units. The president is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and as such, may call out such armed forces necessary to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion or rebellion. In case of invasion or rebellion, when the public safety requires it, he may, for a period not

exceeding sixty days, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus or place the Philippines or any part thereof under martial law. The president may grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons, and remit fines and forfeitures, after conviction by final judgment, except in cases of impeachment. He may also grant amnesty with the concurrence of Congress. The president may contract or guarantee foreign loans on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines with the prior concurrence of the Monetary Board, and subject to such limitations as may be provided by law. The president appoints, with consent of the Commission on Appointments, members of the Constitutional Commissions, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, or officers of the armed forces from the rank of colonel or naval captain, and other officers whose appointments are vested in the President in the 1987 Constitution. The members of the Supreme Court are appointed by the president, based on a list prepared by the Judicial and Bar Council. These appointments do not need the consent of the Commission on Appointments. The President, as head of state, is immune from suit.
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7. 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 theHouse 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.

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