Website of combating corruption in the Phils.

http://www.gatpinoy.com/uploads/5/9/0/5/5905582/combating_corruption.pdf
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan019122.pdf
http://code-ngo.org/home/images/stories/pdf/Commentary_Constitutional_Reform_Proposals.pdf


FRI DAY, J ANUARY 2, 2009
SHOULD THE 1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION BE CHANGED OR NOT?
There is no need for us to change the 1987 Constitution as we are not currently experiencing major
turning points that will affect greatly the social and political make up of our government and society. Our
1987 Constitution was drafted by the framers having in their minds the needs of the Filipino people to be
rightfully included in the Constitution for the improvement of our lives whether they would be political,
social, economical and even environmental. The Constitution therefore encompasses almost everything
important to the lives of the people living in thePhilippines. What we actually need right now is a new
administration that will uphold the integrity of the Constitution and its ideals and not a new Constitution.
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Posted by LIAN at 6:49 PM

The Need to Change the 1987 Constitution (by retired CJ Reynato S. Puno)
Posted by FromTheNet on Jan 12, 2011 in Charter Change, Featured | 26 comments
Given the age of the 1987 Constitution, the geopolitical changes going within and
without the country, the question is whether there is now a need to reconfigure the
Constitution to make it more responsive to the interest of our people.
There is reason to believe that now is the perfect time to rekindle this thought for we
have just elected a new President and inaugurated a new government. There is hardly
any doubt about the pristine intention of our new President to make our democracy
work for our people and it is our duty to help him succeed. I have been in government
in all its branches for about forty years and with no exception, I say that our elected
officials, early on their term, wanted to succeed in office and leave a legacy to our
people. A lot of them failed, for their good intentions were devoured by a system of
government that has been overtaken by time and corrupted by unscrupulous men.

We need not change the Constitution from root to branches but merely diminish its
defects. But we need a modified Constitution to guide our leaders for we cannot allow
our leaders to govern by clairvoyance. Let us not be hogtied, let us not to be hobbled by
orthodoxies for the first rule in the search for solutions to any problem is to be uncertain
of the certain.
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