CHECKS AND BALANCES

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                    [Summary] => A network of lawyers on Monday afternoon called for President Duterte and Congress to focus on proposing legislation on the allocation of specific funds to deal with the COVID-19 crisis rather than that on securing emergency powers and concentration of powers to one man.
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                    [AuthorName] => Franco Luna
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                    [Title] => Nag-uumpugang bato
                    [Summary] => Separation of powers.
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                    [AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr.
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                    [Title] => Gridlock rears its ugly head
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Many political scientists consider gridlock the most harmful aspect of the presidential system.
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                    [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
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                    [Title] => The proposed shift to a unicameral parliament
                    [Summary] => The scrapping of the 2007 elections may be grabbing the headlines these days. But the more fundamental, the critical, issue is still whether a unicameral parliamentary form of government must replace our existing bicameral presidential system. 


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Lawyers warn: Proposed powers for Duterte limitless, without end date

By Franco Luna | March 23, 2020 - 5:32pm

A network of lawyers on Monday afternoon called for President Duterte and Congress to focus on proposing legislation on the...

Headlines

Nag-uumpugang bato

By Ernesto P. Maceda Jr. | February 18, 2011 - 12:00am

Separation of powers.

PSN Opinyon

Gridlock rears its ugly head

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | June 20, 2009 - 12:00am

Many political scientists consider gridlock the most harmful aspect of the presidential system.

Opinion

The proposed shift to a unicameral parliament

By MY VIEWPOINT | By MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. | January 3, 2006 - 12:00am

The scrapping of the 2007 elections may be grabbing the headlines these days. But the more fundamental, the critical, issue is still whether a unicameral parliamentary form of government must replace our existing...

Opinion