Friday, September 28, 2007
Resolution - Hon. Salome G. Saro
THIRD YOUTH CONGRESS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
FIRST Regular Session
YOUTH CONGRESS
YCR No. _____
INTRODUCED BY SALOME G. SARO
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
CALLING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AMENDMENTS TO THE 1987 CONSTITUTIUON OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
WHEREAS, due to the need to promote a more effective and responsive system of governance, build a strong and complementary political institutions and respond to the challenge of global competition, there is now a growing clamor to review and amend certain provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution;
WHEREAS, a higher standards for presidential candidates, befitting the highest office of the land should be formed;
WHEREAS, a political knowledge and experience and a leadership background are concrete prerequisites to a prospective executor of the laws of the land and must be integrated provisions;
WHEREAS, the aforementioned additive qualifications for a presidential candidates should not be instrumental to the deprivation of financially incapacitated aspirants of executive office;
WHEREAS, to aid the contributory upgrading of qualifications for a presidential candidates and for the empowerment of every individual, an inclusion of free public education for tertiary level should also be made;
WHEREAS, the constitution itself provides for the mechanisms for its amendments;
WHEREAS, under Section 1 of Article XVII of the 1987 Philippines Constitution, any amendment to, or revision of, the constitution may be proposed either directly by Congress, upon a vote of three-fourths of all its members acting as a constituent assembly, or through a constitutional convention called by Congress for that purpose;
WHEREAS, a constitutional convention, composed of delegates elected by their fellow citizens, provides a forum for intelligent discussion, intense study and dispassionate debate on the proposed remedies to perceived defects in the constitution;
WHEREAS, the process for proposing constitutional changes must be (1) deliberative in style, which is absent in the mass production of signatures for the peoples, initiative; and (2) objective in nature, which may not be expected from a constituent assembly that may be tempted to craft a charter based on partisan political interests and other motives:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, to call a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the constitution of the Philippines , limiting the areas of amendments to the following:
qualification of the presidential candidates
system of free public education
ADOPTED,Labels: constitutional amendments
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