A universalist history of the 1987 Philippine Constitution (I)

Authors

  • Diane Desierto University of the Philippines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i10.236

Keywords:

Philippines, Constitutional History, Constitutional Ideology, Universalism

Abstract

This paper traces universalism --- the vision of international public order built upon rights and values shared by all individuals and peoples --- as a purposely-embedded ideology in the history and evolution of the Philippine Constitution.  As the postcolonial and post-dictatorship founding document of the post-modern Philippine polity, the paper contends that 1987 Philippine Constitution enshrines nearly a century of constitutional text and practice which has led towards the present institutionalization of universalist rights-democratic theory in the Philippines’ constitutional interpretive canon.

Submission date: 04/10/2008

Acceptance date: 19/12/2008

Author Biography

Diane Desierto, University of the Philippines

Profesora Ayudante de Historia del Derecho y Derecho de los Organismos y las Sociedades, en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Filipinas; Profesora Ayudante de Derecho Internacional Público y Derecho Administrativo en el Liceo de la Facultad de Derecho de Filipinas; y Especialista en Reformas Legales en el Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos Internacionales de dicha Universidad. Licenciada summa cum laude (Class Valedictorian) por la Facultad de Económicas de la Universidad de Filipinas, y licenciada cum laude (Class Salutatorian) por la Facultad de Derecho de dicha Universidad, ha escrito el trabajo publicado durante una beca de investigación (marzo-septiembre de 2008) en el Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Alemania. Actualmente, cursa un Máster (2008-2009) en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, Estados Unidos.

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Issue

No. 10 (2009): Historia Constitucional N. 10 (2009)

Section

Philippines

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