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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 ...
A nomination process was held to select the members of the commission. The commission was composed of 48 national, regional, and sectoral representatives, which included lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, landlords, health professionals, religious leaders, labor and peasant leaders, university professors, and journalists.
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.
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
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.
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 ...
Constituent assembly is a term describing one of the three methods by which amendments to the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines may be proposed. The other two modes are via people's initiative and constitutional convention .