PHISTAR - GOVERNMENT OF LAWS - JOSE SISON
The times indeed require some counter moves that will uphold and preserve the principles in our Constitution providing for a government of laws and not of men. And the only institution that can adopt those moves are the courts, ultimately the Supreme Court (SC) pursuant to its power of judicial review or the power to interpret the Constitution and to declare any legislative or executive act invalid because it is in conflict with it. (Article VIII Sections 4 [2,3] and 5 [2 a, b.]). Through this power, the judiciary, particularly the SC, is not asserting its supremacy over the other departments of government but merely enforcing and upholding the supremacy of the Constitution.
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