Monday, July 9, 2012

Constitutional amendments

As talks about reviving efforts in the PHL Congress to amend the 1987 Constitution circulate in the local mass media, we note that the same trend is being seen in the USA in respect of its own 225-year old Constitution.

"x x x.


recent study said that the U.S. Constitutionwas declining in influence. According to the authors, “the constitutions of the world’s democracies are, on average, less similar to the U.S. Constitution now than they were at the end of World War II.”
As the United States prepares to mark the 225th anniversary of its Constitution, we have the benefit of hindsight that the framers lacked. What should be omitted, clarified or added?

x x x."

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