Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

However, the court diluted that ruling in a subsequent case involving military generals, by invoking military disciplinary rathe ...

In 2005 , President Arroyo made a similar attempt. She created an appointive commission to propose constitutional changes, (^33) ...

courts end up substituting their own policy decisions for those made by the elected branches of government. Second, the drafters ...

The next showdown occurred with the appointment of a new chief justice before the May 2010 presidential election. The post-Marco ...

iii. in the private sphere: a mixed record In the private sphere, the record is mixed. The cases show an authentic agonizing ove ...

current sex, noting that the status of a person is “more or less permanent in nature,” not ordinarily terminable at his own will ...

therefore, these “generally accepted public morals” have not been convincingly transplanted into the realm of law. ... We do not ...

percentage of the senior citizens’ discount. In effect, part of the subsidy is accordingly borne by the seller. The drugstores a ...

While the court upheld the power of the health department to “protect health” and “instill health consciousness,” (^71) the cour ...

The Supreme Court refused to disqualify Poe, on, inter alia, the ground that it would be tantamount to exclusion from the exerci ...

predecessor’s and frustrated by her loyalists in the Supreme Court, succeeded in removing the chief justice by mobilizing public ...

of President Arroyo and annually from 2006 to 2009 against Arroyo herself. It was only in the 2012 impeachment of Chief Justice ...

Aborted impeachment of President Estrada in 2001 This clause was used for the first time in President Estrada’s impeachment in N ...

The showdown between the chief executive and the chief justice The “midnight appointment” The story of Chief Justice Renato Coro ...

not “deemed resigned” when they run for public office. 107 The mischief sought to be avoided by the “resign to run” rule – namel ...

substantive grounds (e.g. that the lifting of the watchlist order was saddled with conditions, some of which had not been satisf ...

will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”^116 This ...

the indiscriminate, deliberate, and illegal machinations of some parties who have been less than forthright with this court and ...

watertight compartments” rather than in a “penumbra shading gradually from one extreme to the other.” 125 That formalist tendenc ...

14 Promoting democracy and finding the right direction A review of major constitutional developments in Indonesia Nadirsyah Hose ...