Comments on: Vivisecting Villafuerte

By: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose » Today's Dose » Opening salvo, not the barrage before the last charge

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:04:17 +0000

[...] this is Dean Jorge Bocobo’s entry, Vivisecting Villafuerte and There Is Nothing For SCORP To Decide. And see SC must look to the Senate’s lead, by Abe [...]

By: leytenian

leytenian — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:49:32 +0000

“When the citizenry are armed with understanding of how things are supposed to work, they are able to better curb the excesses of their own govt.”

Bingo !!!!
an implementation issue on HOW to arm citizenry with understanding. This is exactly the basic job description of any political body.

The question would be: did we vote the right person who knows the “know about” and the “know how” ?

We are almost there. :)

By: DJB

DJB — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:27:31 +0000

jcc,
you’ve been urging “moral recovery” a lot lately. I cannot disagree. But non sequitur here, maybe?

MLQ3,
i believe the task today, as it was in yesteryear, is to raise the level of the general public consciousness about the basic principles and concepts of a democratic polity, so as to reduce to a minimum the ability of courts and officials to act with impunity. When the citizenry are armed with understanding of how things are supposed to work, they are able to better curb the excesses of their own govt. I know I am preaching to the choir with you, but it must not be said that in the dead of the night, we stood quietly while the likes of villafuerte slaughter what has become common sense in other climes. The common thread that runs through the present regime’s moves has been disdain for the Constitution and unrelenting efforts to exploit its weaknesses.

I call for Mental People Power to put the pigs to flight.

By: jcc

jcc — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:29:21 +0000

we sweat over small stuff. the constitution is not our redemption. we should amend our our attitude and our soul, not our constitution.

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:07:41 +0000

Remember though -and please to the extracts from Jose E. Romero in my recent entry on the story of past amendments efforts- that what was iron clad to many can be overturned overnight. During the Unicameral days of the National Assembly, they read the (heretofore unamended) 1935 Charter as requiring 3/4 of the entire membership of the National Assembly, which led to some worries the required number couldn’t be reached, because of many executive appointments from the legislature. This understanding was overturned by the SC in 1947 dealing with the voting for the Parity Amendment, the SC said it was 3/4 of the existing composition of each chamber, not the total number specified in the Constitution.