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The Constitution also contains several other provisions enumerating various state policies including, i.e., the affirmation of labor "as a primary social economic force" (Section 14, Article II); the equal protection of "the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception" (Section 12, Article II); the "Filipino family as the ...
The Philippine Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes is a standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines. It was known as the Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws until September 2, 2013.
20 U.S.C. ch. 25—Pay and Personnel Program for Overseas Teachers; 20 U.S.C. ch. 25A—Overseas Defense Dependents Education; 20 U.S.C. ch. 26—Support and Scholarship in Humanities and Arts; Museum Services; 20 U.S.C. ch. 26A—Indemnity For Exhibitions of Arts and Artifacts; 20 U.S.C. ch. 27—National Vocational Student Loan Insurance
Thus, while the Civil Code seeks to govern all aspects of private law in the Philippines, a Republic Act such as Republic Act No. 9048 would concern itself with a more limited field, as in that case, the correction of entries in the civil registry. Still, the amendment of Philippine legal codes is accomplished through the passage of Republic Acts.
Executive Order No. 10 was signed on December 7, 2016, by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte which created a consultative committee to review the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines. [1] The move officially set in motion the process for amending the 30-year-old charter and set up a federal system of government in the Philippines aimed at ...
Eventually, on November 29, 1972, the Convention approved the new constitution. It was submitted to a vote in the 1973 constitutional plebiscite. The results of the plebiscite and the legality of the 1973 Constitution was questioned before the Philippine Supreme Court in the Ratification Cases. The constitution was upheld.
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
In 1986, following the People Power Revolution which ousted Ferdinand Marcos as president, and following her own inauguration, Corazon Aquino issued Proclamation No. 3, declaring a national policy to implement the reforms mandated by the people, protecting their basic rights, adopting a provisional constitution, and providing for an orderly transition to a government under a new constitution.