The ChaCha Files

I-SITE is making available documents related to the ongoing initiatives to amend the 1987 Constitution. The administration has likened its campaign for charter change to a "train." But critics have been equally aggressive in their opposition to the administration's agenda.

• 1987 Constitution



• The Consultative Commission on Charter Change
  EO creating the Con-Com
  Con-Com's Proposed Revisions to 1987 Constitution
  Abueva's primer: Why change our Presidential government to a Parliamentary government?
  Abueva's primer: Why change our Unitary Republic to the Federal Republic?
  Con-Com Minority Report
  Azurin's position papers on Con-Com: 1, 2
  
• The House of Representatives' version of amendments to the 1987 Constitution
  Jaraula version of proposed amendments
  CODAL Legal Memorandum on Jaraula version
  
• On the convening of Congress as a Constituent Assembly
  House Resolution No. 1211
  Senate Resolution No. 473
  
• On the signature campaign to amend the 1987 Constitution
  DILG Memorandum Circular convening the barangay assemblies
  Documents being circulated in the assemblies
    1. Draft petition
    2. Matrix comparing Presidential and Parliamentary
  Senate Resolution No. 478 - declaring that people's initiative through barangay assemblies is illegal
  RA 6735 - Initiative and Referendum Act
  SC decision, Santiago v. Comelec, and opinions
    1. Majority decision penned by Justice Hilario Davide Jr.
    2. Justice Jose Vitug dissenting opinion
    3. Justice Ricardo Francisco dissenting opinion
    4. Justice Artemio Panganiban dissenting opinion
    5. Justice Reynato Puno dissenting opinion
  
• Comparative Matrices
  Con-Com's proposed amendments to 1987 Constitution
  House-proposed Constitution
  
• Surveys
  Pulse Asia, March 28, 2006
  Social Weather Stations, January 11, 2006
  

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