+ Follow CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE NOW Tag
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[Title] => Ostracism
[Summary] => When we use the word ostracism, we think of snobbery. But to the Greeks whose political concepts survive to this day ostracism was a useful political tool which they used to avoid a foreseen political problem. It provided for the "temporary banishment of a citizen who may be dangerous to public welfare." The practice began in Athens where it was first used in 487-485 BC against Hipparchus, a relative of Hippias, the tyrant of Athens. The Athenian assembly decided every year who was to be ostracized by a show of hands.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
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[Title] => Is there a role for the military?
[Summary] => There is but it may become problematic in the interpretation of just what that role is in the 1987 Constitution. The role of the military in the fate of a nation depends on the specificity of the situation from country to country as well as on the time and circumstances.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-01 00:00:00
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[Title] => Patrimony as a convenient excuse
[Summary] => Constitutional reformers are offended that the enemies of change should use the protection of patrimony as a convenient excuse to block amendments. The inference is that those who want to restructure the body politic to be more effective are ‘unpatriotic’ and the purpose of the amendments is to give away our patrimony. What rubbish. This is not only nonsense but unfair. CCCN (Coalition for Constitutional Change Now) submitted a draft to Congress which deliberately made sure the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution remain.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => Fraudulence in Con-con advocacy
[Summary] => It is so easy to be misled. Those behind "constitutional convention" are vanguards of Philippine society – how can you dispute Cory Aquino, Cardinal Sin, Jose Abueva, Ramon Magsaysay, Jr., Loren Legarda, Juan Flavier, Raul Roco, Joel Rocamora and his leftist brood, et al.? These are the "good" guys. On the other hand, those in favor of constituent assembly, disparaged as "con-ass" have Speaker Jose de Venecia, 134 congressmen and some (we don’t have a count at this time of furious negotiations) senators.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => The Vice President and party programs
[Summary] => While I agree with Vice President Teofisto Guingona that he has every right to his opinion, I am afraid that he’s wrong to challenge the Lakas-CMD to expel him. If Guingona, truly believed that Lakas-CMD party policy was inimical to ‘nationalism,’ then the decent thing for him to do is to resign from the party both as its president and as a member.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-15 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 209123
[Title] => New politics
[Summary] => Highlight: It is not ‘election of de-legates’ that will ensure the passage of the constitutional reforms but the political will of our leaders, Mr. Drilon included. If those of us in civil society have latched on to constituent assembly mode, it is because we want to make sure it is done this time.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Building awareness on win-win
[Summary] => I hesitated to use the words win-win to describe an interesting proposal, mindful that the expression comes from the exuberant Speaker Jose de Venecia. It might be misunderstood just as the man, arguably the most creative politician here-abouts, has been misunderstood. But Christian Democrat guru Louie Lagdameo may just have the solution to break the impasse between those for constituent assembly and those for constitutional convention.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-23 00:00:00
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[Title] => The Prince, Meralco, Texas 10, and CCN
[Summary] => Sometimes it happens that there are more things I want to write about than there is space to write them on. This is one of those times. In the past week, the visit of Cambodia’s Prince Ranariddh, the Supreme Court decision against Meralco, Texas 10 update and Constitutional Change Now were vying for space as far as this column was concerned.
The Prince.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-21 00:00:00
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[Title] => Change the Constitution now / Jailed Filipinos in US
[Summary] => These two topics might seem unrelated but perhaps something does bind the desire for change and the oppression of Filipinos in America. It is a phenomenon called
emergence which is described by those who have studied it well as "the wave of the future". All it means is that we may be miscalculating the ability of a swarm, a group or a collective. Those who believe in it say a swarm can be more intelligent than the individuals who make it up.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE NOW
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[Title] => Ostracism
[Summary] => When we use the word ostracism, we think of snobbery. But to the Greeks whose political concepts survive to this day ostracism was a useful political tool which they used to avoid a foreseen political problem. It provided for the "temporary banishment of a citizen who may be dangerous to public welfare." The practice began in Athens where it was first used in 487-485 BC against Hipparchus, a relative of Hippias, the tyrant of Athens. The Athenian assembly decided every year who was to be ostracized by a show of hands.
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[Title] => Is there a role for the military?
[Summary] => There is but it may become problematic in the interpretation of just what that role is in the 1987 Constitution. The role of the military in the fate of a nation depends on the specificity of the situation from country to country as well as on the time and circumstances.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804784
[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Patrimony as a convenient excuse
[Summary] => Constitutional reformers are offended that the enemies of change should use the protection of patrimony as a convenient excuse to block amendments. The inference is that those who want to restructure the body politic to be more effective are ‘unpatriotic’ and the purpose of the amendments is to give away our patrimony. What rubbish. This is not only nonsense but unfair. CCCN (Coalition for Constitutional Change Now) submitted a draft to Congress which deliberately made sure the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution remain.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Fraudulence in Con-con advocacy
[Summary] => It is so easy to be misled. Those behind "constitutional convention" are vanguards of Philippine society – how can you dispute Cory Aquino, Cardinal Sin, Jose Abueva, Ramon Magsaysay, Jr., Loren Legarda, Juan Flavier, Raul Roco, Joel Rocamora and his leftist brood, et al.? These are the "good" guys. On the other hand, those in favor of constituent assembly, disparaged as "con-ass" have Speaker Jose de Venecia, 134 congressmen and some (we don’t have a count at this time of furious negotiations) senators.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-06 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => The Vice President and party programs
[Summary] => While I agree with Vice President Teofisto Guingona that he has every right to his opinion, I am afraid that he’s wrong to challenge the Lakas-CMD to expel him. If Guingona, truly believed that Lakas-CMD party policy was inimical to ‘nationalism,’ then the decent thing for him to do is to resign from the party both as its president and as a member.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[Title] => New politics
[Summary] => Highlight: It is not ‘election of de-legates’ that will ensure the passage of the constitutional reforms but the political will of our leaders, Mr. Drilon included. If those of us in civil society have latched on to constituent assembly mode, it is because we want to make sure it is done this time.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-07 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Building awareness on win-win
[Summary] => I hesitated to use the words win-win to describe an interesting proposal, mindful that the expression comes from the exuberant Speaker Jose de Venecia. It might be misunderstood just as the man, arguably the most creative politician here-abouts, has been misunderstood. But Christian Democrat guru Louie Lagdameo may just have the solution to break the impasse between those for constituent assembly and those for constitutional convention.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-23 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
[URL] =>
)
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[Title] => The Prince, Meralco, Texas 10, and CCN
[Summary] => Sometimes it happens that there are more things I want to write about than there is space to write them on. This is one of those times. In the past week, the visit of Cambodia’s Prince Ranariddh, the Supreme Court decision against Meralco, Texas 10 update and Constitutional Change Now were vying for space as far as this column was concerned.
The Prince.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-21 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Change the Constitution now / Jailed Filipinos in US
[Summary] => These two topics might seem unrelated but perhaps something does bind the desire for change and the oppression of Filipinos in America. It is a phenomenon called
emergence which is described by those who have studied it well as "the wave of the future". All it means is that we may be miscalculating the ability of a swarm, a group or a collective. Those who believe in it say a swarm can be more intelligent than the individuals who make it up.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-14 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804784
[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
[SectionName] => Opinion
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