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In 1967, the executive branch was headed by the tenth president, Ferdinand Marcos.Expressing opposition to the administration's policies and citing rising discontent over wide inequalities in society, [2] critics of Marcos began campaigning to change a constitution which they said had been written under the dominion of the country's former colonial overlords. [3]
In 1971, under an earlier constitution, Republic Act No. 6132 provided that delegates to a constitutional convention would be elected by the national legislative district, in a special election. [3] The 1987 constitution specifies that any proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution must be ratified by a majority of voters in a plebiscite. [1]
A constitutional convention was called to change the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines, written to establish the Commonwealth of the Philippines.A special election was held on November 10, 1970 to elect the convention's delegates, which would convene in 1971.
Eduardo Torcelo Quintero (29 May 1900 – 17 December 1984) was a Filipino lawyer and diplomat. He served as an ambassador to the United Nations, and an elected delegate to the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971 tasked with framing a new constitution for the country to replace the previous 1935 constitution.
Alvarez was a young activist who participated in the 1971 constitutional convention. [1] He refused to sign the Ferdinand Marcos regime backed constitution that gave extensions to the president's term in office.
The constitution was also used in the 3rd Republic (1946) until the passage of the 1973 constitution. Members were elected through the 1934 Philippine Constitutional Convention election 1971 – to draft a revised constitution to replace the old U.S. 1935 Philippine constitution .
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. All three require a majority vote in a national referendum.
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