BACK in the days of the interim Batasang Pambansa where I sat as an assemblyman for the Bicol Region, I once irreverently remarked that there were three types of Constitution, namely: the written one like the American Constitution; the unwritten one like the English Constitution; and the constantly rewritten one like the Philippine Constitution.
From the first Constitution written by Felipe G. Calderon for the 1899 Malolos Congress to the 1987 Constitution written by 48 men and women handpicked by Cory Aquino after the EDSA uprising, we had four constitutions in-between: the American-inspired 1935 Constitution, the 1943 Japanese-occupation Constitution, the 1973 martial law-influenced Constitution, and the 1986 EDSA revolt provisional Constitution.
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