Experts favor move to revisit 1987 Charter
02/18/2011The debates on whether to amend the 1987 Constitution are expected to start in the Senate soon, after majority of constitutional law experts supported a revived move for Charter change (Cha-cha).
Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno said before a Senate committee yesterday that with all the problems confronting the country, it is timely to revisit the 24-year-old Constitution.
“I honestly believe that it is time to discuss again constitutional change,” he stressed.
Puno is also open to the concept of federalism broached by former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and former University of the Philippines (UP) president Jose Abueva, pointing out that the unitary government which has been in place for more than four centuries has not proved effective in delivering services and in ending the peace and order problem in Mindanao..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110218hed5.html
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