Last Monday, the House plenary, by a vote of 301, approved RBH 6, thus moving towards a change in the 1987 Constitution through a hybrid Constitutional Convention.
Our representatives would like to change a charter that is one of the first in the world when it comes to recognizing primacy of “substantive” justice, which is how former Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno describes the kind of justice espoused by our Constitution – equal opportunity at the starting line by acknowledging existing inequalities.
In his recent EDSA anniversary celebration speech, Commissioner Christian Monsod pointed out that the Constitution that they want to change “emphasizes equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good. It gives social and economic rights equal primacy because we are a country of inequalities where the starting points of the rich and poor are not equal. It is not enough to provide “equality of opportunity” and “fair process” without being concerned about “outcomes.
On Article 2, Section 14, the provision recognizing women’s role in nation-building that was authored by the President of the Constitutional Commission Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma, this is what Commissioner Adolf Azcuna said when he moved to retain the words “fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
We recognize the voices of our own legislators and women leaders. There is Senator Risa Hontiveros, chair of the Senate Committee on women, children, family relations, and gender equality, as well as the rights of “invisible women;” Senator Loren Legarda, the longest serving senator who authored the “Magna Carta of Women;” and “Anti-Violence Against Women,” Gabriela Party List with its Rep. Arlene Brosas, and Alliance of Concerned Teachers Rep.
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