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Rule of Law Month
THE rule of law is the principle that governmental authority is legitimately exercised only in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws adopted and enforced in accordance with established procedure. The principle is intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance. In American law, after which much of our law is patterned, the most famous exposition of this principle was drafted by John Adams for the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in justification of the principle of separation of powers. Adams said: "In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: To the end it may be a government of laws and not of men."
Analysis
SINGAPORE – Illegal logging is threatening the livelihood of millions of the world’s poor, robbing governments of billions of dollars in revenue and undermining legitimate logging businesses, the World Bank said on Saturday.
Second Thoughts
THIS was one of the basic questions that the newly-organized Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) asked me to address at a CEO Forum it convened on 1 September.
All Things Considered
LAST week, we witnessed one party, already insecure to begin with, seeking to compel a defiant party. It was like a parent spanking a rebellious child.
The healing of a centurion’s slave
Luke 7:1-10
Solidarity in practice
NAGA puts a high premium on responsible citizenship and participatory mechanisms of public governance. And the striking thing is that this commitment does not remain at the level of talk. They (the City Mayor and the Naguenos) obviously mean it. They insist on giving substance to it in actual practice.
A new chapter
PCGG Chairman Camilo Sabio’s shouting match with Sen. Dick Gordon Tuesday would be the climax of the long series of boycotts of Senate hearings by administration officials.
Foreign mining investors coming in
BARELY warming his seat as newly appointed Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Angelo T. Reyes embarked on his first foreign trip of inviting investors in the mining industry of the country last April.
Champertous contract
A TWO-page advert in today’s issue (it had also appeared previously in other newspapers) carries the summary judgment penned by NCR RTC Presiding judge Pedro M. Sabundayo Jr.’s on Civil Case No. 05-172, a petition by Oscar Camerino and intervenors Efren Camerino, Cornelia Mantile and Mildred del Rosario (in her capacity as legal heir and representative of Nolasco del Rosario) revoking the power-of-attorney extended to Mariano Nocom, respondent.
Inventions & interventions
THE good news for everybody is that oil prices continue to fall.
A naked ploy
MIRIAM Defensor Santiago has become the amanuensis of GMA in her foreign trips.
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