Issue on Constitutional Change

Issues on Constitutional Change

• The present constitution has not been
changed or amended since it was crafted and
approved and ratified by the electorates.
• Since February 2, 1987
• When President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino
came into power.
• 17 articles with new preamble
• Lawyers, politician, economist and academics
have criticized it for the following:
1. Weak provision on party system
2. Absence of a definite prohibition on political
dynasties
3. Restrictive foreign ownership
4. Lack of efficiency among branches of
government
• Also known as “Cha-cha” CHARTER
• It refers to the political CHANGE
and legal processess
needed to amend the
current 1987 Constitution
of the Philippines
• What method of CHARTER
revision/ amendment? CHANGE
• Who will benefit from
provision?
• The amount to finance
change?
• Where does power to change the 1987
constitution come from?
• The Sovereign Filipino People – Art. XVII
Sec.4
• Who initiate changes in constitution?
• Congress (Con-Con) (Con-Ass)
• Is there a limit to what we can change from 1987
Constitution?
• Only the norms accepted and recognized by
an international community of states

“It is easy to write a constitution; it is more

difficult to make constitution work”
 NO to CHA-CHA
• Pulse Asia Nationwide survey on charter
change in June 2018, 75% of respondents said
that they had little and almost none or no
knowledge at all of 1987 Constitution.

YES to CHA-CHA
• It will change the Filipino’s lives and such
change will be real practical and visible
embracing everything we do as part of society.
• Duterte’s Bayanihan Constitution