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A Call for Sobriety
“I do not know if we can convene immediately even if the resolution is approved today.” – Hon. Prospero Nograles, Speaker, House of Representatives
The approval of House Resolution No. 1109 (ConAss) has been met with everything but sobriety – even the very leadership of the House of Representative has failed to comprehend its approval in the [...]
Good Morning Manila: The Asses Have It
Dear Manila,
I write this still stunned. The power, the speed and the tenacity by which Philippine House Resolution 1109 transforming Congress into a Constituent Assembly was adopted, it was simply mind over matter. Your valiant and dedicated Congressmen fought sleep and sanity and reason. The Eighth Republic as you slept, Manila, was conceived and dedicated [...]
SCoRP’s Monkey Wrench For Thine Con-Ass
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 [...]
Last Dance
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 [...]
Remembering EDSA 1: Dad and Doy Laurel
My father told me that Doy Laurel is a prime example that the Revolution eats its own children. EDSA 1 despite what people think is a Revolution. Like in any revolution, some die as heroes, some profit by being at the right place and at the right time and those who are thieves and highwaymen [...]
Democracy Has Morality But No Theology
There is a rare beauty in the Constitution that founds our Democracy, bared by the whetstones of our recent discussions on God, politics and morality. That beauty in the Constitution is both poetic and rhetorical because once you see it, you realize that it distills a hidden and perhaps surprising truth about Democracy. Then a [...]
America’s “Tagumpay ng Bayan” and some lessons for us
The multitude attending the Obama inaugural (bundled up of course!) on the Mall reminds me of Cory Aquino’s Tagumpay ng Bayan in March 1986. Surely the American people want to witness history as I did when Cory Aquino was apotheosized in her victory (delivered by an aborted coup d’ etat).
The Luneta was meant by the American [...]
Federalism, the Canadian Experience — What Can We Learn?
Videos taken from the “Dialogues on Federalism” forum, held November 28, 2008, 10 AM to 12 NN, at the University of the Philippines Diliman NCPAG. The speaker that morning was a member of Canada’s Senate, Senator Sharon Carstairs, who was introduced by Senator Aquilino Pimentel, jr.
The host was Dean Alex Brillantes of the College of [...]
Cha-Cha, Presto Marcato con Moto
There’s quite a bit of activity by the administration and its allies (or not) towards amending and or revising the Constitution.
For our readers’ reference, here’s a list of some of those bills and resolutions, and their principal authors.
On Whose Side Will The Spear-Carriers Be For?
Commenter JCC has left an interesting comment on Abe’s post Bloggers’ historic act in Arroyo impeachment, nay or aye?, which reads in part:
the above quote from my previous thread had something to do with the dilemma of Justice Marshall in the case of Marbury v. Madison.
Part of that dilemma: What if despite our decision the [...]
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