Veteran lawmaker Edcel Lagman opposed the renewed push of House of Representatives to amend the 1987 Constitution, saying the charter was “sacrosanct” and “cannot be amended at will or convenience.”
Lagman was responding to Garbin’s defense for Resolution of Both Houses No. 2, which would add the phrase “unless otherwise provided by law” to the economic provisions to empower Congress to pass laws lifting current restrictions on foreign investors. But Lagman said that in these constitutional provisions, Congress was authorized to implement a mandate of the Constitution, not to supplant or deny it as being proposed under RBH 2.
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