The Philippine Constitution says that if a president dies, sustains a permanent disability, is removed from office or resigns, the vice president takes over and serves the rest of the term. Marcos ran with Duterte as his vice-presidential running mate in the May 2022 elections and both won wi...
(g) The mobilization plans of financial, industrial, economic, social, intellectual, and moral forces and resources of the Philippines shall conform to the provisions of the Constitution of the Philippines and shall be prepared by the executive departments concerned in accordance with the following g...
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 [...
(now celebrated as Independence Day). In September aconstitutionalcongress met inMalolos, north of Manila, which drew up a fundamental law derived from European and Latin American precedents. A government was formed on the basis of that constitution in January 1899, with Aguinaldo as president of...
A constitutional convention was quickly elected and a constitution (which bore a strong resemblance to its U.S. model) framed and approved byplebisciteand by Pres.Franklin D. Roosevelt. The last governor-general,Frank Murphy, became the first high commissioner, with more of a diplomatic than a...