Chicken or the Egg: Culture Change or System Change?
People often wonder about what determines the success of a society. Is it the culture or is it the system? Quite recently, as the debate on Constitutional Reform progresses and as more and more...
Category: Parliamentary System
Constitutional Change Now
(originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21st November 2012) by Peter Wallace Let me give you a few points to ponder when considering whether or not we need to open up the...
Tables and Ladders (Exposing Esposo, Part 2)
Almost nineteen months ago, Orion wrote an article on How to CoRRECT™ Asia’s Basketcase of Wasted Democrazy. The article essentially mentioned that the term “Charter change” is dead. In its place is the message...
It’s all about Competition
It is well-known that the concept of healthy and fair competition has the effect of an “invisible hand” that essentially results in benefits and improvements for everyone. We CoRRECTors and other advocates of Constitutional...
Let’s Talk Basketball – by Figo Cantos
I’ve been an advocate of the CoRRECT™ Movement for almost a year now. After getting in touch with Orion Pérez Dumdum during a Christmas Celebration of the Bagumbayan-VNP (Gordon-Bayani 2010) Party, I studied its 3-point agenda...
Sen. Enrile Solidly Supports Parliamentarism
Current Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has repeatedly expressed his solid support for Constitutional Reform for a very long time. Back in the days when what later became the 1987 Constitution was up for...
The CoRRECT™ Three Point Agenda
The CoRRECT™ Three Point Agenda was conceptualized as a comprehensive but simple solution that acts as a first enabling step that helps facilitate a lot of other important reforms. Here are the three points...
The Parliamentary System: Would it produce better leaders?
[by Arnel B. Endrinal] I am not a die-hard advocate of Constitutional Reform but I generally support the idea. However, while others support it primarily for the economic agenda, I on the other hand...
Problems of Presidentialism & the US Exception
by Fred W. Riggs, PhD (1917-2008) This is a draft for the text published as “Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective,” in Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil, eds. Comparing Nations: Concepts,...
Sen. Claro M. Recto on the Presidential System
The late Senator Claro M. Recto, president of the 1934 Constitutional Convention which drafted the 1935 charter, describes the Philippine political system this way: “Our Constitution was frankly an imitation of the American charter....
