FINAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE VI LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

1. Search for a law authored or co-authored by the Representative in your said district. What is the effect of that
law to his constituents? Does the law represent for the welfare of the people in the district?
ARTICLE VII EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
2. What do you think about the power of the Executive department in our country? Do you think the executive
position can abuse their power(s)? In what instances? Should we change the system of government from
presidential to parliamentary? Why or why not?
Article VIII JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
3. In the present events in our country regarding heinous crime, some sectors of the society are calling for the
revival of death penalty. The president in one of his statement said,
"I will have to study that. I don't know where the calls are emanating from. But yung (the) essence
nito (of this), our judicial system, as you know, is not perfect. There is a possibility that people
can be wrongly convicted, especially if they do not have the ability to secure competent counsel.
Should we change the judicial system in our country from judge to jury system? Compare the possible pros and
cons of having a judge or jury system in our country. Do you think adopting the jury system, like the practice in
United States, can help reform the judicial department? Explain your stand.
PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
4. In a Senate committee hearing about constitutional amendments chaired by Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago, she invited experts on constitution as the resource person and one of them was former Chief Justice
Reynato Puno who said that now is the perfect time to amend the 1987 Constitution. If you were to ask, do
you think this is the right time for us to make some changes in the 1987 Philippine Constitution? Why or Why
not? What are the provisions that we should change which is not suited in the present generation?

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