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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 final stage of the drafting of...

A country by any other name

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HOR’s Legislative History

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Duterte wants to speed up federal shift, says Senate chief

President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his proposal to hasten the process for a shift to a federal form of government so that he could be...

Plebescite on federal practical–Koko

The conduct of a plebiscite to approve the constitutional commission’s draft federal Constitution is more practical, Senator Aquilino Pimentel III said Sunday. He told dzBB...

Tax all Church properties

When the Church-dominated Constitutional Commission opted to exempt religious organizations from the payment of taxes, the framers completely ignored that in exchange for...

The Commission on Human Rights as a constitutional commission

Proposed Section E of Article IX (Constitutional Commissions) Section 1 1) There is hereby created an independent commission called the Commission on Human Rights. (2) The Commission...

More liberal Charter provisions on economy sought

The constitutional commission must look into the protectionist economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution that have been blamed for the relatively “anemic” foreign direct...

Congress leaders meet to unite agenda

ILOCOS Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas said on Wednesday leaders of the Senate and Congress have met to set 35 measures in their legislative agenda. He...

Arroyo eyed for Con-Com

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he was studying the suggestions to name his close ally, former President and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to...

Con-Com members sought

Now that the bill seeking to restore death penalty has cleared the House of Representatives,  Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez says he believes that President Rodrigo...

Charter change will take time–Speaker

THE shift to federal form of government as espoused by President Rodrigo Duterte will take time, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said Friday.  At present, Alvarez said...

Con-Com eyed to prelude Cha-Cha, federal shift

THE 25-member Constitutional Commission will be tasked to set the transition parameters for the “modified parliamentary” system of government before eventually shifting to and...

Shun ‘hallelujah squad,’ senator pushes Duterte

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