Let’s talk turkey on Latin maxims
With a negligible risk of error, it could be said that while Latin phrases are deemed the bedrock principles of modern law, some have become obsolete.
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Primer Pagunuran
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
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To strike a balance between both internal and external threats, extraordinary statesmanship or tradecraft is necessary to bring the ship of state to an even…
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Democracy, next domino falling
Marcoleta should have reason to feel that his rabid detractors could no longer distinguish between ‘rubbish’ and logic, which is the single powerful desiderata…
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If men were angels
There’s an evil genius that plays the maestro over several artists, putting together all the pieces, roles, scenes, tactics, and behaviors in one consuming and…
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Powers that be
The state has telegraphed all of its punches, making all its moves entirely predictable.
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Central issues in dysfunctional governance
Dysfunctional governance is an anachronism in public administration as a modernizing field, albeit ‘wicked’ is the term used in the lingua franca.
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Political dynamics 101
The sudden change in the Senate leadership struck us with disbelief, thus disturbing, at least for a brief but painful moment, our collective psyche.
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Senate qua Senate
Could fresh linguistic constructs outmaneuver the true intent and purpose of what ‘the majority of all its members’ means in the constitutional text?
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Policy vs law, or political void?
The Senate never ceases to humor us, to walk us through some labyrinthine passageway which looks more like it is leading to an escape rather than to freedom.
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