Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Constitution of the Philippines (Filipino: Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas or Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas) is the supreme law of the Philippines. Its final draft was completed by the Constitutional Commission on October 12, 1986, and ratified by a nationwide plebiscite on February 2, 1987. The Constitution remains unamended to this day.
The 1987 constitution does not specify how delegates to a Constitutional Convention should be chosen. [1] For past conventions, this has been specified in the legislation calling for the convention. In 1971, under an earlier constitution, Republic Act No. 6132 provided that delegates to a constitutional convention would be elected by the ...
Renaming the Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines into the Design Center of the Philippines 2013-05-15: 10558: Increasing Plantilla Positions for the West Visayas State University and West Visayas State University Medical Center 2013-05-17: 10559: Renaming a Provincial Office of the PNP 2013-05-17: 10560
It is convened by Congress to propose amendments to the 1987 constitution. Under Article XVII of the Constitution of the Philippines, amendments pass upon a vote of three fourths of all members of Congress, wherein the Congress votes as separate houses for the amendment. [1]
President Aquino later issued Proclamation No. 9, creating a Constitutional Commission (popularly abbreviated as "ConCom" in the Philippines) to frame a new constitution to replace the 1973 Constitution, which took effect during the martial law regime of her predecessor. President Aquino appointed 50 members to the Commission.
The draft constitution passed by the ConCom on October 12, 1986, and was presented to President Aquino three days later. The draft constitution was subject to a plebiscite on February 2, 1987 . The results of the plebiscite was announced on February 11, 1987, with 16,622,111 or 76.30% of voters in favor of the draft.
Then, to the Rhode Island Constitution, Section 22, effective in May 1843: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Yes, this was actually written into the Rhode ...
In 1970, 320 delegates were elected to a constitutional convention which began to meet in 1971. On 23 September 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos issued the formal declaration of martial law which led to the arrests of 11 conveners, alongside government critics and journalists, by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Constabulary. [1]