Don’t blush: Ex-CJ Davide does not know what he does not know
THE flamboyant claim of former Chief Justice Hilario Davide that “the best in the world” and should be kept inviolate, should be mothballed in “the pantheon of hyperbole and ex also recent claim that he is “really smart and a stable genius.”
The only sensible response to this is embarrassment for the personages who said them, because they are patently untrue and will not be believed. Both
claims cannot be ignored be cause they stigmatize entire nations unnecessarily:
because all Filipinos must bear the stigma of living in acute poverty while being governed by the best political system on earth;
Americans must live with the fact that they put up Trump as chief executive and commander in chief of their country.
ers really mean what they say.
Trump believes in his genius
evaluation of his abilities in a tweet @realDonaldTrump ....Actually,throughoutmylife,my twogreatestassetshavebeenmental thesecardsveryhardand,aseveryone fromVERYsuccessfulbusinessman, totopT.V.Star....
....toPresidentoftheUnitedStates qualifyasnotsmart,butgenius....and averystablegeniusatthat!
No one who has met or inter viewed Trump, can say that, in person, he conveys the edge, the layers of meaning that are usually associated with both emotional and analytical intelligence.
Not even his aides and cabinet members have attested to his genius. Fireand
Fury, of the opposite. Some writers have observed three common traits among people who greatest statesmen.
of quietly comparing their ease in handling intellectual challenges with the efforts of other people has given them the message.
Second, none of them need to
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Davide freezes time with 1987 Constitution
personal abilities.
Appearing before the Senate yesterday during its convening as a constituent assembly, the former chief justice and former ambassador launched the most sweeping and extravagant endorsement of the
It was the equivalent of an artist, author and actor reviewing his own but he mercifully stopped short of enumerating the brilliant provisions that he personally authored.
though perhaps imperfect.
absolutely no need to amend or
sions against abuse of power and ticipation of governance, including
Davide then warned that the proposed shift to federalism would
experiment, a fatal leap, a plunge to
Along with other members of the Constitution, Davide has been at tempts to amend the Charter.
In another extravagant statement, be willing to die against any moves to
Die? After his retirement from the Supreme Court, Davide has been appointed and reappointed so many times by the two Aquino administrations, and has been gifted with his own political dynasty in Cebu province, that his political position now can be interpreted as the position of the Liberal Party and the Yellow Cult. This is where they stand on the issue of amending or
Manglapus: Constitution belongs to us
But there was one member of the Cory Aquino government who voiced in my view the sanest and most mature its being amended. His name was Raul Manglapus, former foreign affairs secretary and former senator.
At a critical time of ferment, he belong to the Constitution. The
Since it belongs to the people, they and their representatives can rewrite or even replace it, as the Charter itself provides.
No amount of extravagant state ments by Davide and Liberal Party leaders can change the fact that the adjustment to the present time and
the last to claim that they have handed us the best Constitution.
Modern constitutionalism has left them and their ideas in the dust. There is today a new movement in
Cambridge University Press has Com
parativeConstitutionalDesign, Tom Ginsburg, editor (Cambridge Univer
The contemporary practice of con . . originate with bold acts of purpo modation . . . and moments of creative
Davide has no clue what contempo