Will Charter change bring benefits to Filipinos?

Question

Now, is it a move by Malacañang to allow the President to stay beyond her term that will end in 2010? Or, is it really time to effect changes to the 1987 Constitution, provisions of which have become antiquated or non-relevant to the times?

Answer 1

charter change proffered at the end term of an unpopular but powerful  president is always suspect.  

Answer 2

1)   The main problem I see with your Constitution is that it is not self-enabling. For the life of me, I can't figure why a part of your Constitution has to be enabled for it to be valid.

2)   There is nothing really wrong with a Parliamentary system having an upper and lower house, and the President being selected in a general election.

3)   There IS something wrong with a federal or confederate system. That is the quickest way to Balkanize this archipelago. CSA tried to separate from USA 150 years ago... my homeland used to be Czechoslovakia - then Czecho-Slovakia, and now it's Czech republic and Slovakia (two countries). If that's what you want, then go right ahead.

Answer 3

even if you change form of government, if the leaders (not necessarily the president only) are bad, nothing will good will come out of it.