The constitutional convention that assembled in the aftermath of the act drafted a Philippine constitution, which was approved by the US president in March 1935. The 1935 constitution proclaimed, with stipulations, bourgeois-democratic freedoms in the Philippines. The government of the autonomous ...
Joaquin Bernas, in his April 22 article in another newspaper, being one of the main framers of the 1987 Constitution, uses the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as his basis to defend the Philippine claim. This, despite and after acknowledging the fact that, indeed, “t [...