Federalism, a type of government in which the power is divided between the national

government or the so-called local government units (LGUs) and other governmental

units. This type of government is what you can see in countries like the United States,

Australia, and Canada. This type of government is found to be more responsive and can

help divide the Philippines into several manageable parts, thus bringing optimum

efficiency and effectiveness in managing the whole country.

From a practical perspective as far as the actual implementation of Federalism, setting

up regional/provincial/state governments is going to require additional revenue streams

to handle the physical, logistical and organizational changes in the form of government.

Revenue which will have to be sourced by the federal divisions themselves (as per the

principle of autonomy and self-rule within a division), but there is a massive disparity in

the economic prospects of the various regions within the Philippines.

The Philippines is tiny in terms of landmass. Philippines is not big enough to have

regions whose needs and resources drastically from each other. As such, it does not

make sense to give more power to our provinces over matters like health care and

education. We struggle to make a unitary government work as is. How much more

difficult will it be, logistically, to run a country by giving provinces more autonomy, when

we can't function well enough under a unitary government? Why risk furthering the

already present regional divides when we, as Filipinos, can't even unite ourselves? As a

young student, one of the easiest ways to contribute to federalism is to support your

local government if that’s the case. I am personally pro federalism because our central

government doesn't have a capacity to manage the provincial and regional affairs

anymore because of financial constraints and cultural/linguistic differences, however,

the transition to federalism should be gradual to avoid unintended alienation from those

who will be directly affected with the overhaul of our form of governance.