Never again a dictatorship
"That Juan Ponce Enrile is now suggesting going back to the martial law provisions of the 1935 Constitution/1973 Constitution is ...
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Six-year presidential term is sufficient continuity
"Let another administration take over the task of running this country well." It is very probably true that ...
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A touch of parliamentary governance
"That’s what the Duterte-Go relationship is." Most Filipinos interested in parliamentary democracy, whether as advocates or opponents, probably ...
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Party-list system has been bastardized
"Once again, voters will be asked to countenance what has become the greatest abomination in the 1987 Constitution." The ...
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The travesty of the 1973 Constitution
While reformists called for the convening of the 1971 Constitutional Convention, the Marcos forces eventually hijacked it; as a consequence, ...
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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.