What’s in a mode of amending the Constitution? The Makabayan bloc in the House of
Representatives immediately reacted with vehemence when the President announced that the
Constitution should instead be revised through a Constituent Assembly to save some P6 billion,
the estimated cost of creating a Constitutional Convention.

EXPECT POLITICIANS to invoke their favorite but deeply flawed “Vox populi vox Dei” line.

Sen. Nancy Binay once sneered: “It’s the people who will vote.” Is it really the people who will vote? Studies show otherwise.

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Senate President Franklin Drilon filed a resolution pushing for constitution convention to revise the 1987 Constitution.

Drilon said there is a need to re-examine the 29-year-old Constitution and see “if it is still attuned or responsive to the demands of present-day realities."