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A STATEMENT ON THE HOUSE RESOLUTION CONVENINGITSELF AS A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLYTHROWING A PARTY FOR NO REASON AND INVITING ONLYTHE HOSTBy Makati Rep. Teodoro L. Locsin Jr.
BECAUSE this is just a resolution, the House will vote by mere yells of yeas and nays. In the tumult, the public and the press may mistake whovoted for and against it. Make no mistake RONNIE ZAMORA AND I arevoting NO because we have kept our wits about us unlike the others whohave lost all of theirs. For this resolution convenes only the Lower House of Congress as a constituent assembly to “consider,” as the Constitution puts it,constitutional amendments that no one has proposed, do not exist, andtherefore cannot be considered.This strictly House only resolution is like sending out an invitation toa party to which the host has invited only himself.This is also like sending out an invitation to a party on no definite datefor no stated occasion other than the host throwing a party for himself byhimself. On top of which, the host—Rep. Luis Villafuerte—has cancelledthe party and withdrawn the invitation though some—how shall we callthem?—housebreakers, I suppose—have decided to go on with the party.This is a resolution calling for the convening of the Lower House of Congress as a constituent assembly the day before it adjourns. This is likesending out an invitation to a party on no date, for no stated occasion, whileannouncing that the host is leaving for a long vacation abroad.It is said that this invitation to a party inviting only the host isintended to provoke a reaction from those not invited.Whoever came up with this idea of a party has no idea about throwinga party except what he might have learned from the videos of the parties thatHayden Koh threw where he was both host and sole party animal except for his unwitting partner. But Hayden Kho had an excuse. He was drugged. Thequestion is under what kind of influence is this kind of party being thrown?In other words,
nag-e-Ecstacy ba ang mga
proponents of this Houseresolution and why are not they not sharing the joy?
 
It is said that we must do this because, unless we throw a party for noreason inviting only ourselves, we will never know for sure if such a partycan be thrown?But how will we know? We are sure to be ignored by those we did notinvite even as we will be ignored by the social arbiter to which we areappealing on this score.I submit that the Supreme Court and the country as a whole willignore us—and then laugh at us all the way to the ignominious end of the14
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Congress. We shall be ignored as surely as we shall be laughed at.For this is a resolution calling upon the members of Congress butnaming only the members of the House to convene constituently for nostated purpose. And yet the Constitution specifies that Congress mayconvene as a constituent assembly only for the purpose of considering— considering—not introducing let alone just awaiting—proposals to amend or revise the Constitution upon a vote of 3/4
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of all the members of Congress.This resolution puts the cart before the horse because, there being noamendments to consider, there is no purpose to convene Congress as aconstituent assembly.It is a blatant lie that this resolution reflected upon its introduction tothe floor of the House a consensus of the House of a need to amend theConstitution because, aside from the Speaker of the House who filed hisamendment to the economic provisions as a regular bill, no one hasexpressed any desire to change the Constitution or expressly specified inwhat particular respect.As for the lawyers among us who say they want to litigate thisquestion, they will be provoking the Supreme Court to render what it cannotand will not—to wit, an opinion in no concrete case and controversy. Theselawyer-legislator should tread carefully for the Court is liable to strip themof their license for trifling with the Court and the processes of justice.This resolution mocks the House and holds it up to ridicule. If anything, it is a fit subject not of a vote but an ethics investigation of the proponents of this measure for inviting the contempt of the nation upon our House.
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