1987: CONSTITUTION AFTER MARTIAL LAW

Question 1

: CONSTITUTION AFTER MARTIAL LAW

Answer 1

1987

Question 2

1987

Answer 2

CONSTITUTION AFTER MARTIAL LAW

Question 3

President Corazon Aquino’s Government had 3 options regarding the Constitution.

Answer 3

1. Revert/Restore the 1935 Constitution
2. Retain & Reform the 1937 Constitution
3. Pass a new constitution & break from the “Vestiges of Disgraced dictatorship.”

Question 4

• President Aquino proclaimed a transitional constitution to last for a year while a constitutional commission drafted a permanent constitution.

Answer 4

MARCH 1986

Question 5

• This Traditional Constitution, called the ___________________.

Answer 5

Freedom Constitution

Question 6

• It maintained many provisions of the old one, including rewritten form the presidential right to rule by decree.

Answer 6

Freedom Constitution

Question 7

• In _______, a constitutional convention was created.

Answer 7

1986

Question 8

• created by ___________ from varied backgrounds and representations that ________ appointed.

Answer 8

48 members
President Aquino

Question 9

• The convention drews up a permanent constitution, it largely restored the set abolished by Marcos in ______ but with new ways to keep the president in check.

Answer 9

1972

Question 10

The new constitution was officially adopted _________.

Answer 10

February 2,1987

Question 11

Constitutions

Answer 11

• Preamble
• 18 self-contained articles

Question 12

It established the Philippines as a “___________________” where “_______________.”

Answer 12

Democratic Republican State
sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them

Question 13

Allocate governmental power.

Answer 13

• Executive
• Legislatives
  o Senate (upper chambers)
  o House of Representatives (lower chambers)
• Judicial
  o Supreme Court
  o Lower Courts

Question 14

The constitution also established 3 Independent Constitutional Commissions

Answer 14

1. Civil Service Commission
2. Commission on Election
3. commission on Audit

Question 15

Changing Constitution
3 ways by which Constitution can be changed.

Answer 15

1. Cha-Cha
2. Con-Ass
3. Con-Con

Question 16

• Changing the Constitution is perennial issue that crops up, and terms such as _________-and _________ are regularly thrown around.

Answer 16

“Cha-Cha,” “Con-Con”

Question 17

• _____________- provides for three ways by which the Constitution can be changed.

Answer 17

Article XVII of the 1987 Constitution

Question 17

• Another method is through ______________, where Congress, upon a vote of two thirds of all its members, calls for a constitutional convention. They may also submit to the electorate the question of calling convention through a majority vote of all its members.

Answer 17

the Constitutional Convention (Con-Con)

Question 18

• In a _______-, delegates will propose amendments or revisions to the constitution, not Congress.

Answer 18

Con-Con

Question 19

• The third method is called the “___________. In this method, amendments to the constitution may be pronounced by the people upon a petition of at least ____ of the total number of registered voters.

Answer 19

People’s Initiative” (or PI)
12%

Question 20

• The _________does not provide for a method by which delegates to the Con-Con are chosen.

Answer 20

1987 constitution

Question 21

• All legislative districts must be represented by at least ______ of the registered votes therein. No amendment is allowed more than once every five years since a successful PI.

Answer 21

12%

Question 22

• ___________ directs the Congress to enact a law to implement the provisions of the PI, which has not materialized.

Answer 22

The 1987 Constitution

Question 23

• ___________ shall be valid only when ratified by a majority of the votes cast in the National referendum.

Answer 23

Amendments or revision to the Constitution