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Among the proposed changes in the constitution included a shift to a senatorial system and the lifting of term limits of public officials. Ramos argued that the changes will bring more accountability, continuity, and responsibility to the "gridlock"-prone Philippine version of presidential bicameral system. Some politically active religious ...
11 proposed states for the proposed Federal Republic of the Philippines. The Philippines is a unitary state with some powers devolved to Local Government Units (LGUs) under the terms of the Local Government Code. There is also one autonomous region, Bangsamoro.
The Philippine House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, or House Constitutional Amendments Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives. Jurisdiction [ edit ]
Romualdez said top congressional leaders of the country's political parties are meeting Monday to discuss procedural issues that have hampered past efforts to amend the Philippines' 1987 constitution.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the People's Initiative method of amending the constitution is "fatally defective", or inoperable. Another ruling in 2006 on another attempt at a People's Initiative was ruled unconstitutional by the court [15] This only leaves the Constituent Assembly and the Constitutional Convention as the valid ways to amend the constitution.
Under Salvador Araneta's proposal during the 1972 Constitutional Convention, the Philippines was proposed to be divided in five states. His proposal was recorded in a document dubbed as the "Bayanikasan Constitution", a portmanteau of "Lakas" and "Bayan". [2]
Map depicting the jurisdiction of sharia district courts in Mindanao. The Constitution provides explicit concession to Muslims, who are a minority in the Philippines, when it comes to state neutrality. It allows the Congress to enact "special courts with personal, family, and property law" for an autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao.
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