(This piece was published in FV on November 30, 2008. It has disappeared from the site possibly by being deleted accidentally or for some other unknown reason. FV administrators are investigating. The article is being re-posted here so that it will remain as part of the FV portfolio. We are sorry we are unable to [...]
What to do with Arroyo after 2010?
November 25, 2008 By 27 Comments
Impeachment (an inter-election pre-termination process), as Charter change (that is, one calculated to bypass constitutional term limits), is essentially a political act. Whether wise or unwise, the people will ultimately have the last say on it. In the case of the newly filed impeachment complaint against President Arroyo, her loyalists in Congress, as in previous [...]
Bloggers’ historic act in Arroyo impeachment, nay or aye?
November 14, 2008 By 102 Comments
I have blogged a number of times here in FV criticizing the decision of the Supreme Court on the MoA-AD case arguing in the main that the development of the law on separation of powers could be heading further in the wrong direction as a consequence of the decision. Among others, I raised the following [...]
Obama is America’s new leader
November 5, 2008 By 1 Comment
Barack Hussein Obama II, 47, the son of a Kenyan Muslim and a white American from Wichita, Kansas and the junior United States Senator from Illinois is America’s 44th President. Obama is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review supervising about 80 staff editors. [...]
The good, the ordinary and the ugly
November 3, 2008 By 20 Comments
There are historical patterns that if we care to seriously reflect on would inform us of certain repeated forces known to have driven great events, among which is this: That history is often made by people and institutions in power and by how their power is employed by them to produce goods and services for [...]
The other autocrats
October 22, 2008 By 27 Comments
Among the responses to Marcosian authoritarianism the Filipinos have decided to entrench in the Constitution are: 1) the expansion of powers of the Supreme Court, 2) the placing of additional curbs to executive powers via more specific provisions of congressional control, and 3) the augmenting of the Bill of Rights to strengthen the protections of [...]
SC MoA-AD ruling, ‘a burlesque of the Constitution’
October 20, 2008 By 11 Comments
The Philippine Supreme Court is right from the very outset in stating that the essential question before it in Province of North Cotabato v. GRP (October 15, 2008) is “the extent of the powers of the President in pursuing the peace process” (emphasis in the original). The Court also cited the correct case law (Pimentel [...]
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