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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines established a new democratic government after the Marcos regime. President Corazon Aquino issued a provisional constitution in 1986 to restore democracy and drafted a new permanent constitution. A Constitutional Commission with 48 members drafted the new constitution over 133 days. Key issues debated included the form of government, death penalty, and U.S. military bases. The new constitution was largely based on the U.S. and 1935 Philippine constitutions but also incorporated other legal influences. It was ratified by nationwide vote in February 1987.

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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines established a new democratic government after the Marcos regime. President Corazon Aquino issued a provisional constitution in 1986 to restore democracy and drafted a new permanent constitution. A Constitutional Commission with 48 members drafted the new constitution over 133 days. Key issues debated included the form of government, death penalty, and U.S. military bases. The new constitution was largely based on the U.S. and 1935 Philippine constitutions but also incorporated other legal influences. It was ratified by nationwide vote in February 1987.

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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines established a new democratic government after the Marcos regime. President Corazon Aquino issued a provisional constitution in 1986 to restore democracy and drafted a new permanent constitution. A Constitutional Commission with 48 members drafted the new constitution over 133 days. Key issues debated included the form of government, death penalty, and U.S. military bases. The new constitution was largely based on the U.S. and 1935 Philippine constitutions but also incorporated other legal influences. It was ratified by nationwide vote in February 1987.

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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines established a new democratic government after the Marcos regime. President Corazon Aquino issued a provisional constitution in 1986 to restore democracy and drafted a new permanent constitution. A Constitutional Commission with 48 members drafted the new constitution over 133 days. Key issues debated included the form of government, death penalty, and U.S. military bases. The new constitution was largely based on the U.S. and 1935 Philippine constitutions but also incorporated other legal influences. It was ratified by nationwide vote in February 1987.

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    “1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION”

    The 1987 Constitution Aquino began her term by repealing many of the Marcos-era regulations
    that had repressed the people for so long. In March, she issued a unilateral proclamation
    establishing a provisional constitution. This constitution gave the President broad powers and
    great authority, but Aquino promised to use them only to restore democracy under a new
    constitution. This new constitution was drafted in 133 days by an appointed Constitutional
    Commission of 48 members and ratified by the people in a plebiscite held on February 2, 1987.
    It was largely modelled on the American Constitution which had so greatly influenced the 1935
    Constitution, but it also incorporated Roman, Spanish, and Anglo law. The Constitution of the
    Philippines is the constitution or supreme law of the Republic of the Philippines. Its final draft
    was completed by the Constitutional Commission on October 12, 1986, and was ratified by
    a nationwide plebiscite on February 2, 1987. Three other constitutions have effectively governed
    the country in its history: the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution, the 1973 Constitution, and the
    1986 Freedom Constitution. Ruling by decree during the early months of her tenure as a
    president installed via the People Power Revolution, President Corazon Aquino was granted
    three options: restore the 1935 Constitution, retain and make reforms to the 1973 Constitution, or
    pass a new constitution. She decided to draft a new constitution and issued Proclamation No. 3
    on March 25, 1986, abrogating many of the provisions of the 1973 Constitution adopted during
    the Marcos regime, including the unicameral legislature the office of Prime Minister, and
    provisions which gave the President legislative powers. Often called the "Freedom Constitution
    this constitution was intended as a transitional constitution to ensure democracy and the freedom
    of the people. The Freedom Constitution provided for an orderly transfer of power while
    a Constitutional Commission was drafting a permanent constitution. The Constitutional
    Commission was composed of forty-eight members appointed by Aquino from varied
    backgrounds, including several former members of the House of Representatives, former justices
    of the Supreme Court, a Roman Catholic bishop, and political activists against the Marcos
    regime. Aquino appointed Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme
    Court, as president of the commission. Several issues were of particular contention during the
    commission's sessions, including the form of government to adopt, the abolition of the death
    penalty, the retention of U.S. bases in Clark and Subic, and the integration of economic policies
    into the constitution. Lino Brocka, a film director and political activist who was a member of the
    commission, walked out before the constitution's completion, and two other delegates dissented
    from the final draft. The Commission finished the final draft on October 12, 1986, and presented
    it to Aquino on October 15. The constitution was ratified by a nationwide plebiscite on February
    8, 1987.

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