It is ultimately not legal but political, and will be resolved with a political stand that the Supreme Court must respect. ...retired justice Adolfo Azcuna, chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy and an author of the 1987 Constitution, argued that it is constitutional to recognize a distinct Bangsamoro people within the country. He accepted that the bill’s innovations could generally be read in the context of the Constitution. And he prominently stated he is from Zamboanga. IBP general counsel and former UP Law dean Pacifico Agabin told me history demands that we recognize how our Muslim brethren remained independent from foreign colonizers even before we thought of our archipelago as the Philippines. The critiques of the Bangsamoro bill’s constitutionality have solid foundations, BUT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN SLAVERY WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND, ACCEPTED AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH BY THE BEST LEGAL MINDS OF THE DAY, AND DEEMED PART OF THE NATURAL ORDER. Segregation and apartheid were likewise the truths of their time. But LAW CHANGES. TIME CHANGES. [Selection of paragraphs and emphasis added]
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