Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986

The Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 was the constitutional convention tasked with drafting the present iteration of the Constitution of the Philippines in 1986.

Sessions

• Regular Session: June 2 – October 15, 1986

Legislation

Leadership

• President: Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
• Vice President: Ambrosio Padilla
• Floor Leader: Napoleon Rama
• Assistant Floor Leaders:
  • José D. Calderón
  • Ahmad Domocao Alonto
• Secretary General: Flerida Ruth Pineda-Romero

Members

A nomination process was held to select the members of the commission. The commission was composed of 48 national, regional, and sectoral representatives, which included lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, landlords, health professionals, religious leaders, labor and peasant leaders, university professors, and journalists.

See also

• First Philippine Commission
• Second Philippine Commission
• Congress of the Philippines
• Senate of the Philippines
• House of Representatives of the Philippines

References

Further reading

• Philippine House of Representatives Congressional Library
• Paras, Corazon L. (2000). The Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines. ISBN 971-8832-24-6.
• Pobre, Cesar P. (2000). Philippine Legislature 100 Years. ISBN 971-92245-0-9.

External links

• "Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986". Official Gazette. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
• Cecillia Muñoz-Palma (October 15, 1986). "Closing remarks of the President of the Constitutional Commission at the final session, October 15, 1986". Official Gazette. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
• Official Gazette Archives on the 1986 Constitutional Commission
• Records of the 1986 Constitutional Commission
• Atienza, Ma. Ela L. (1994). "Drafting the 1987 Constitution The Politics of Language". Philippine Political Science. 18 (37–38): 79–101. doi:10.1080/01154451.1994.9754188. (Published online: April 18, 2012)

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