A Universalist History of the 1987 Philippine Constitution (II)

• Autores: Diane Desierto
• Localización: Historia constitucional: Revista Electrónica de Historia Constitucional, ISSN-e 1576-4729, Nº. 11, 2010, págs. 427-484
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper traces universalism --- the vision of international public order built upon rights and values shared by all individuals and peoples --- as a purposely-embedded ideology in the history and evolution of the Philippine Constitution. As the postcolonial and post-dictatorship founding document of the post-modern Philippine polity, the paper contends that 1987 Philippine Constitution enshrines nearly a century of constitutional text and practice which has led towards the present institutionalization of universalist rights-democratic theory in the Philippines� constitutional interpretive canon.