QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10-W)
It increases the membership of the Post-War Planning Board created by Executive Order No. 7-W by adding specific individuals as members.
Executive Order No. 7-W is expressly referenced as having created the Post-War Planning Board.
It increased the Board’s membership by adding the listed new members.
Colonel Carlos P. Romulo, Dr. Arturo B. Rotor, and Col. Manuel Nieto.
Colonel Carlos P. Romulo is identified as Secretary of Information and Public Relations; Dr. Arturo B. Rotor as Secretary to the President; Col. Manuel Nieto as Aide-de-Camp to the President.
It indicates that the President acted within the powers granted by the Constitution and existing laws, serving as a basis for the issuance of the executive order.
Because the Post-War Planning Board already existed under Executive Order No. 7-W; the EO only modifies its composition.
It was done at Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America, on March 16, 1944.
It states the 16th day of March in the year of Our Lord 1944 and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (the ninth).
It suggests a series of related wartime executive measures; EO No. 10-W builds upon and amends/expands an earlier wartime administrative action under EO No. 7-W.
It is an executive order, an exercise of the President’s lawmaking/administrative authority to implement, administer, or modify governmental structures during the Commonwealth period.
No. The EO does not expressly repeal or amend provisions; it only states that it increases the Board’s membership by adding particular members.
Students may discuss the principle that where authority exists to create administrative boards or alter their composition, the President may do so via executive action, provided such authority is grounded in the Constitution and/or enabling laws.