Chapter 2: G & B

•  President Aquino abolished the 1973 constitution, scrapped the Batasan Pambansa (Parliament), the supreme court, the local government units, and the civil and military service.
  
    Provide her government with democratic legitimacy...48 men and women, including prelates and suspected communists, and hastily framed her own constitutions, the substance and wordings which, due mostly to the hatred of Marcos and accommodations of the diverse political, social, and economic interests of the framers.
  
  
• Another (Aquino constitution) provision in Section 28, Article II, provides that: "Subject to reasonable conditions prescribed by law, the state adopts and implements policy of full public disclosure of all its transactions involving public interests."
  
    By inaction, the Aquino government had swept too many secrets under the rug and her regime was littered with numerous rugs bulging with dark and dirty transactions.
  
  
• Up to now, none of these imperfect provisions in the Aquino constitutions had been amended, resulting to an economy that can barely employ its own people and the repeated culpable violations of the constitution.
  
  
• Most Filipinos, particularly the youth, are still ignorant about the Aquino constitution.
  
  Why?
  
    Because it failed to explain and educate them about... Section 3, Article XIV, that: "all educational institutions shall include the study of the constitution as part of the curricula."
  
  
  
• Thus, some pro-charter propagandists in that one-sided campaign said that a "yes" vote for constitution was a "yes" for democracy, for freedom, for progress, and for stability.
  
    The voters voted "yes" to the constitution although most of them not read its provisions.
  
  
  

Q: Why is a good constitution important?

A: It is very important because it affects the lives for all Filipinos...