Who should administer oath to Noynoy Aquino?
MANILA, Philippines - Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, who looks set to become the 15th Philippine president, is mulling whether he will take his oath before the country's incoming chief justice, Renato Corona.
Aquino was asked by reporters on Thursday what he thought about the legal opinion that it was not mandatory for him to take his oath before the Chief Justice.
"Yes, I am researching it now," said Aquino in a text message to reporters, when asked if he was considering being sworn into office by another SC Justice.
Aquino earlier vowed not to recognize an Arroyo-appointed chief justice.
On Wednesday, outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo chose Corona, her former presidential legal counsel, spokesman, chief of staff, and acting executive secretary, to replace Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who will retire on May 17.
Arroyo picked Corona amid the election-period appointment ban, which bars the president from making any appointment 2 months before the elections and until June 30.
The SC recently ruled, however, that the judiciary is exempt from the ban.
Sen. Aquino would not be the first president to take his oath other than the sitting Supreme Court chief justice.
His mother, the late president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, was also not sworn into office by then Chief Justice Ramon Aquino.
In 1986, she took her oath as the 11th president of the Philippines before Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee, while dictator Ferdinand Marcos took his before Chief Justice Ramon Aquino.
She eventually succeeded Marcos as president after the first EDSA people power revolution forced the Marcoses to flee the country.
Only by tradition
Presidential spokesperson Ricardo Saludo insisted on Thursday that Aquino must take his oath before the chief justice.
However, Liberal Party vice-president for advocacy and policy Florencio "Butch" Abad disagreed.
“No provision in the Constitution requires the President-elect to take his oath before the chief justice. What is required is that the oath be taken before an officer clothed with authority to administer an oath. If in the past, chief justices have administered the oath of presidents, that has been observed more as tradition rather than as compliance with a requirement of the Constitution,” Abad explained.
The president can take his oath even before a notary public.
In the US, President Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office in 1923 by his father John, a notary public. Out of 68 US presidential inaugurations, 61 have been performed by the chief magistrate, 1 was by a Supreme Court associate justice, and 5 by judges.
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OATH BEFORE HIS VICE PRESIDENT JOJO BINAY
It is one spectacular event if Noynoy Aquino will take his oath before his vice president Jojo Binay, who will took first his oath before the incoming Senate President. This will be seen to usher an era of new beginning for our country's politics.
TEKA MUNA!
HINDI PA PRESIDENTE SI NOYNOY. MAKAHABOL PA SI ERAP. ILANG BOTO LANG ANG LAMANG NI NOYNOY?. 5 MILLION LANG? HA HA HA. LOL! SABI NI ERAP MANANALO PA SIYA.
MAG PROTESTA PA SILA JAMBY, DE LOS REYES AT SI PERLAS. BAKA DAW MAY ISA PA SA KANILA ANG MANANALO. LOL!!......
HOY TEKA!
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Apparently PGMA is setting a
Apparently PGMA is setting a trap for Noynoy to recognize her appointed Chief Justice.
The US administrator of the oath for president.
While the Constitution does not mandate that anyone administer the oath, the oath is typically administered by the Chief Justice, but sometimes by another federal or state judge (George Washington was first sworn in by Robert Livingston, the chancellor of the State of New York in 1789, while Calvin Coolidge was first sworn in by his father, a Justice of the Peace and a Vermont notary public who lived in a home without electricity, phone, or running water, in 1923). By convention, incoming Presidents raise their right hand and place the left on a Bible or other book while taking the oath of office.
William R. King is the only executive official sworn into office on foreign soil. By special act of Congress, he was allowed to take his oath of the office of the Vice President on March 24, 1853 in Cuba, where he had gone because of his poor health[3]. He died 25 days later.
From 1789 through 2009, the swearing-in has been administered by 15 Chief Justices, one Associate Justice, three federal judges, two New York state judges, and one notary public. Though anyone legally authorized to administer an oath may swear in a President, to date the only person to do so who was not a judge was John C. Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge's father, a notary whose home the then-Vice President was visiting in 1923 when he learned of the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Sarah T. Hughes is the only woman to administer the oath of office (she was a U.S. District Court judge who swore Lyndon B. Johnson into office on Air Force One after Kennedy's assassination).
See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States
I will do it.
I am a certified Notary Public.
I'll do it
“No provision in the Constitution requires the President-elect to take his oath before the chief justice. What is required is that the oath be taken before an officer clothed with authority to administer an oath. If in the past, chief justices have administered the oath of presidents, that has been observed more as tradition rather than as compliance with a requirement of the Constitution,” Abad explained.
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In that note. I'll do it! Me! Me! hahaha... The man look sharp in the suit.
Advice to my countrymen in healing our nation:
Love people and use things
Not love things and use people