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So ganyan din yung term ni President Ramos.
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The shift to a parliamentary form of government essentially lifts the term limit for the president.
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And they will do it during the first half of the president's term habang malakas pa siya.
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Dahil pagkatapos na...
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ng midterm elections, usually yung mga senador na nagbabalak na tumakbo for vice president or the presidency,
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lumalabas na yung mga sungay nila, alam nila na transition period na.
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So in terms of timing, in terms of content, in terms of maybe motivation, it's always been about term limits.
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Kaya kung sasabihin ng mga tao, wait, parang conspiracy theory yan, no?
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Parang hindi mo naman talaga alam yung motivation nung mga nagpupush ng charter change.
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Well, if you look back at history, malinaw na paulit-ulit na yun talaga lagi yung binabagsakan.
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And number two, given the nature of our history, also of our constitution,
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every time na susubukan buksan yung ating saligang batas, you have to think of the worst possible motivation.
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You have to think of the worst possible motivation.
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And ang tanong lagi, what's in it for the ones pushing it?
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So for the members of the House na pinupush, can they really honestly say na ito yung advocacy nila na ibenta yung bayan sa mga foreigners?
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Parang wala naman yatang maniniwala na ito yung kanilang plan or scheme for economic development for the nation.
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So anyone who's looking at...
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Despite the situation, pwede nilang sabihin talaga na baka naman meron pa talagang ibang motivation for pushing this type of a proposal.
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Actually, a part of me wants to entertain.
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Siguro parang mental exercise.
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Baka naman siguro, in a way, benefit of the doubt.
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Hindi ba pwede i-consider na iba itong pinupush nila?
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Yun lang naman, siguro devils advocate for the devils.
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Kasi ito na example.
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So historically pala, talagang laging it's all about term limits.
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Kung baga parang excuse lang yan to open the constitution.
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Pero ngayon kasi sinasabi nila, very specific yung nakalagay sa resolution namin.
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And di ba sinasabi nila, they don't even have to convene as a constituent assembly.
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Pwede siyang ipasa separately yung tinatawag na Father Joaquin Bernas model.
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What do you think of that?
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In theory, pwede naman talaga na honest-to-goodness na proposal yan.
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But you have to realize, the moment the machine starts moving, kahit ano pwede na mangyari.
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So punyari, balik tayo doon sa nangyari noong 1971.
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Akala noong mga nagsusulat ng constitution noong 1971,
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kayang ma-avoid yung question ng extension ng term limits noong presidente at the time.
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And then suddenly, nagkaroon ng declaration.
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And then suddenly, nagkaroon ng declaration of martial law.
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When martial law was declared, lahat nang pwedeng ipasok noong presidente, na ipasok niya na.
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Ganyan din, I think, yung potential na pwedeng mangyari dyan sa proposal to separately convene.
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Pwedeng may mangyari sa House, pwedeng may mangyari sa Senate.
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But in the end, kailangan lang mag-convene together for a final proposal.
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So yun, hindi mo na makakontrol yun.
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The moment they sit down together, kung ano yung final proposal,
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parang yung bicameral conference committee for passing a regular legislation,
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merong pwedeng ipasok.
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And that happens all the time.
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And na-question na yan, several times sa Korte Suprema,
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and yung Korte Suprema, laging yung sinasabi na,
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well, pwede naman mag-insert, pwedeng magbawas pagdating sa bicameral conference committee.
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And so, ang malamang na mangyari dyan,
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they can talk about itong mga innocuous,
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mga proposals to amend the Constitution,
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yung education, advertising, public utility.
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Pero pagdating doon sa tunay na unsapan, doon sa bicameral conference na,
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for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution,
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pwede nang magbago yan.
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And kapag pumasok na yung proposal to extend the term of anyone,
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the president, vice president, or kung sino man, mahirap nang mahinto yan.
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And that's always the danger.
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Dahil, again, we need to go back to yung basic structure of our Constitution.
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Yung ating Constitution is fixed.
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Ibig sabihin, by design, dapat siya mahirap talagang mabago or ma-alter.
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That's why yung amendment or revision process is designed to be equally difficult.
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Kailangan mo nga ng supermajority na three-fourths,
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and then dapat sila magkahiwalay.
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Kailangan mo nga nagtatrabaho dahil it's a bicameral...
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Hiwalay na buboto dahil it's a bicameral system.
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So, that was really meant to make it as difficult as possible
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for those in power to amend the Constitution.
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Pangalawa, and I'd like to emphasize this,
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the best time to amend the Constitution is really during some kind of a special moment.
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So, in Constitution law, ito yung tinatawag namin na,
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constitutional moment.
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Parang yung mga nagliligawan, parang kailangan tayo magkaroon ng moment
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para maisip natin yung talagang gusto nating baguhin sa ating Constitution.
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The prime example of this would be the 1986 People Power, diba?
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Noong 1986, nagkaroon tayo ng revolution,
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and one of the acts of the revolutionary government was precisely to
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repudiate the 1973 Constitution.
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And that was a constitutional moment for the Philippines because
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under a revolutionary system, makakatutok talaga yung mga tao
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dun sa gusto nilang bagong sistema ng pamamahala, bagong sistema ng gobyerno.
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So, kung ganun yung sistema, you're under what we call a constitutional moment,
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a situation where yung mga tao nakafocus yung attention nila dun sa nangyayari dun sa sitwasyon,
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wala kang question about motives.
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Kasi kaya kang ngayon nagkaroon ng revolution, nagkaroon ka ng end sa revolution ay dahil gusto mong baguhin yung sistema.
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But, otherwise peaceful yung ating sitwasyon.
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And yung proposal hindi manggagaling dun sa mga mamamayan.
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Nanggagaling dun sa mga may kapangyarihan.
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Natural, dapat yung mga tao tumas yung kila nila and sabihin na,
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well, hindi ba pwede na you just try to govern properly?
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Hindi ba pwede na ibaba na natin yung level ng corruption?
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Hindi ba pwede na galingan na lang muna natin yung pamamalakan ng bayan?
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Hindi ba pwede na bawasan nyo muna yung gastos nyo?
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Maybe yun yung talagang magpapaulad sa ating bahay.
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And that's the right attitude.
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Natatawa ko rin sa mga hinihingi mo, Atty. Hilbay.
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Kasi ang sasagot sa'yo ng trapo, hindi.
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Paritan ng konstitusyon.
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And kung yun yung sagot, ang report ko is, lalo akong hindi papayag sa chacha.
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Dahil kung yung mga reasonable yung hinihingi ko, hindi nyo maibigay sa akin, which is good governance,
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honesty and transparency in government, prudence in the way the money of the people is spent,
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and smaller government, something that's more reasonable para naman yung inflation bumaba,
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para hindi tayo masyado bumutang.
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Kung yung mga nasa kapangyarihan nyo ngayon, hindi nyo ibibigay sa mga mamamayan.
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Lalo kung isasara yung pintuan dyan sa chacha na yan.
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