‘Friend to all, enemy to none’
"At the 19th ASEAN-India Summit, the President urged members of the regional bloc to work closely with India to ensure ...
Read moreTag: 1987 Constitution
Have money, will party
"Unless and until we revise the 1987 Constitution and re-instate the two-party presidential system because we do not have the ...
Read moreSquare pegs in a round hole
"It is bad enough that as things now stand, the CHR can only recommend charges against those who abuse or ...
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Why POGOS must be outlawed
"Gambling is illegal in China and the bad image given to the Philippines by these mainland Chinese crime syndicates has ...
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Enrile suggests country reverts to ‘brief, simple’ 1935 Charter
The country should revert to the 1935 Constitution and elect 48 senators due to its expanded population, Chief Presidential Legal ...
Read moreTime to revise the Constitution (4)
"We need not pattern our democratic institutions with those of the United States, or shift to other governance models of ...
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Villafuerte measure to revive Con-con via Dec. assembly
The proposal to amend the 1987 Constitution is being revived at the House of Representatives. In filing House Bill 4926, ...
Read moreTime to revise the Constitution (2)
"Given our current situation, with voter education quite sparse, dynasties entrenched all over, and the lack of ‘mature’ political parties, ...
Read moreTime to revise the Constitution (1)
"Our multiparty system within a unitary presidential form of government has created mock political parties which have become mere flags ...
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The Constitution as agent of change
If it is true, as someone once said, that “laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.