Op-ed: Refusal to amend Philippines' constitution will lead to obsolescence

Despite the hollering need to amend provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, there are those who continue to oppose it, holding the document akin to some immutable scripture. But refusing to amend when lacunae and ambiguity are all too obvious is the surest way to the obsolescence of the Constitution — and that can never be good for the rule of law. [ . . . ] For the sake of democracy and the rule of law, the Constitution must be a current document — by which I mean, a document kept up to date so that its provisions may stably anchor the actions of administration, the statutes passed by the legislature and the application of the laws to actual cases and controversies by the judiciary.
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