Minority agrees to Con-Ass, vows to lift term limits
THE minority bloc on Thursday agreed to constitute Congress into a Constituent Assembly to overhaul the 1987 Constitution and vowed ...
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Con-Ass preferred Cha-Cha mode
THE House committee on constitutional amendments voted 32-7 with three abstentions on Wednesday to approve a motion to convene the ...
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Cha-Cha panel proposed
SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez says he has submitted for President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval his proposed Executive Order creating a 25-man Constitutional ...
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Trusting Congress
Would you leave your teenage daughter alone in a room with a member of Congress? If not, why would you ...
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Get the Cha-cha ball rolling, solon urges
THE groundwork for amending the 1987 Constitution should start early because it will require a lot of study and debate, ...
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Constitutional wrongs
Legal luminary Manuel “Lolong” Lazaro, the chair and CEO of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa), addressed the Rotary Club of ...
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