Penses by Fr. Ranhilio Aquino
The university’s academic freedom
Justice Frankfurter’s articulation of the breadth of the academic freedom of an institution of higher learning is unbeatable: It is...
Decency
This is not about whether you should use cuss words or not, because you should not. This is not about...
No money for higher education?
Secretary Ben Diokno is someone I hold in high regard. We were once on the same panel that took up...
Martial law until Christmas time
Congress, assembled in joint session as ordained by the Constitution, has overwhelmingly voted to grant the President’s request to extend...
Listen, LTFRB, and learn!
When I have a car, and I decide that when I am not using it, and neither is my family,...
The judiciary in a federal Philippines
Where you have two parallel political entities—the nation (or the Federal Republic) and the region (or the state)—then, as you...
The legal system of a federal Philippines
The Commerce Clause of the US Constitution has generated a respectable body of jurisprudence on the limits of state legislatures...
Where are you going?
That question annoys me, especially when my mother asks it of me when she catches wind of some trip that...
Sui generis?
It now seems to be the latest learning, following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Mindanao martial law cases, that...
No such thing as a constitutional crisis
I have been asked in interviews repeatedly whether I saw a constitutional crisis looming in the stand-off between the Court...
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