HOUSE RESOLUTION CONVENING ITSELF AS A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

THROWING A PARTY FOR NO REASON AND INVITING ONLY THE HOST

Because this is just a resolution, the House will vote by mere yells of yeas and nays. Inthe tumult, the public and the press may mistake who voted for and against it. Make nomistake RONNIE ZAMORA AND I are voting NO because we have kept our wits aboutus unlike the others who have lost all of theirs. For this resolution convenes only theLower House of Congress as a constituent assembly to “consider,” as the Constitution puts it, constitutional amendments that no one has proposed, do not exist, and thereforecannot be considered.This strictly House only resolution is like sending out an invitation to a party towhich the host has invited only himself.This is also like sending out an invitation to a party on no definite date for nostated occasion other than the host throwing a party for himself by himself. On top of which, the host—Rep. Luis Villafuerte—has cancelled the party and withdrawn theinvitation though some—how shall we call them?—housebreakers, I suppose—havedecided to go on with the party.This is a resolution calling for the convening of the Lower House of Congress as aconstituent assembly the day before it adjourns. This is like sending out an invitation to a party on no date, for no stated occasion, while announcing that the host is leaving for along vacation abroad.It is said that this invitation to a party inviting only the host is intended to provokea reaction from those not invited.Whoever came up with this idea of a party has no idea about throwing a partyexcept what he might have learned from the videos of the parties that Hayden Koh threwwhere he was both host and sole party animal except for his unwitting partner. ButHayden Kho had an excuse. He was drugged. The question is under what kind of influence is this kind of party being thrown? In other words, nag-eEcstacy ba ang mga proponents of this House resolution and why are not they not sharing the joy?It is said that we must do this because, unless we throw a party for no reasoninviting only ourselves, we will never know for sure if such a party can be thrown?But how will we know? We are sure to be ignored by those we did not invite evenas we will be ignored by the social arbiter to which we are appealing on this score.I submit that the Supreme Court and the country as a whole will ignore us—andthen laugh at us all the way to the ignominious end of the 14

Congress. We shall beignored as surely as we shall be laughed at.For this is a resolution calling upon the members of Congress but naming only themembers of the House to convene constituently for no stated purpose. And yet theConstitution specifies that Congress may convene as a constituent assembly only for the purpose of considering—considering—not introducing let alone just awaiting—proposalsto amend or revise the Constitution upon a vote of 3/4

of all the members of Congress.This resolution puts the cart before the horse because, there being no amendments toconsider, there is no purpose to convene Congress as a constituent assembly.It is a blatant lie that this resolution reflected upon its introduction to the floor of the House a consensus of the House of a need to amend the Constitution because, asidefrom the Speaker of the House who filed his amendment to the economic provisions as a