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Initiative

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | August 31, 2006 - 12:00am

Among the few redeeming points of the 1987 Constitution is the institutionalization of "people power" through the provision for recall, referendum and popular initiative. Ironically, that provision could...

Opinion