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It feels like a life time ago when I greeted you, “Good Morning Manila: The Assess Have it!” You know, that was nearly two months ago. In that span of time, the world was asked, if Neda fell in a desert, would we hear her? Not long after that Michael Jackson was doing the Thriller [...]
Although the Supreme Court has denied any link between Con-Ass moves in the House and its tectonic new ruling in Banat v. Comelec which is “immediately executory” the Constitutional Arithmetic at the heart of any Unicameral Con-Ass move has suddenly become a SCoRP-specified bit of Calculus. All of a sudden the Magic Number to achieve [...]
The headline of the Philippine Daily Innuendo today does a great public disservice. There is no “fourth mode” of amending the 1987 Constitution, only a People’s Initiative, a Constitutional Convention, or by the Congress. In this post I vivisect the ongoing charter change moves led by President Arroyo’s sons and surrogates in the Philippine House [...]
It is NOT the case that one of the two alternatives, joint or separate voting on proposed charter changes, is unconstitutional, since either mode can comply with the three fourths majority requirement. Either mode is constitutional. There is nothing for the Supreme Court to decide. It is not that kind of ambiguity. It is up [...]
(Cross posted at Philippine Commentary) The Supreme Court recently dismissed Kampi Rep. Adam Relson Jala’s petition to have the present House Rule on charter change proposals declared unconstitutional, which Rule upholds the 1935 concept of Congress proposing charter changes with House and Senate voting separately. But Kampi President and Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte is [...]
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