Flawed Aquino Constitution dooms Corona impeachment
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Had the act of impeaching Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona been verified and further debated in the committee and plenary instead of the 188 lawmakers inordinately rushing the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the House as a whole would have seen the constitutional defect under which the accused is being removed from office.
There is no excuse here for the breach because all members of the House took a solemn oath and affirmation to support and protect the Constitution and therefore it is assumed that they knew in advance that the impeachment of Corona begins and ends with the Constitution.
There is also no doubt that if the articles of impeachment were nominally voted upon in the plenary, majority of the members of the House would have seen the wisdom of just maintaining the status quo and amend the Constitution to provide a safeguard against a dangerous judicial vacuum and other infirmities before proceeding to impeach the CJ..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120314com6.html
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