WHEREAS, corruption is among the most despicable acts of defiance of this principle and notorious violation of this mandate WHEREAS, Article XI, Section 1 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines solemnly enshrines the principle that a public office is a public trust and mandates that public officers and employees, who are servants of the people, must at all times be accountable to the latter, serve them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty and efficiency, act with patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives Pertinent provisions of said executive order read:ĬREATING THE PHILIPPINE TRUTH COMMISSION OF 2010 1 establishing the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010 (Truth Commission). Thus, at the dawn of his administration, the President on July 30, 2010, signed Executive Order No. To transform his campaign slogan into reality, President Aquino found a need for a special body to investigate reported cases of graft and corruption allegedly committed during the previous administration. The genesis of the foregoing cases can be traced to the events prior to the historic May 2010 elections, when then Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III declared his staunch condemnation of graft and corruption with his slogan, "Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap." The Filipino people, convinced of his sincerity and of his ability to carry out this noble objective, catapulted the good senator to the presidency. (petitioners-legislators) as incumbent members of the House of Representatives. ![]() 193036, is a special civil action for certiorari and prohibition filed by petitioners Edcel C. 1 for being violative of the legislative power of Congress under Section 1, Article VI of the Constitution 6 as it usurps the constitutional authority of the legislature to create a public office and to appropriate funds therefor. 192935, a special civil action for prohibition instituted by petitioner Louis Biraogo (Biraogo) in his capacity as a citizen and taxpayer. 1, dated July 30, 2010, entitled "Creating the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010." 4įor consideration before the Court are two consolidated cases 5 both of which essentially assail the validity and constitutionality of Executive Order No. It cannot be simply made to sway and accommodate the call of situations and much more tailor itself to the whims and caprices of government and the people who run it. 3 Constitutional doctrines must remain steadfast no matter what may be the tides of time. 2 The Constitution is the basic and paramount law to which all other laws must conform and to which all persons, including the highest officials of the land, must defer. It is through the Constitution that the fundamental powers of government are established, limited and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among the several departments. ![]() The role of the Constitution cannot be overlooked. ![]() When the judiciary mediates to allocate constitutional boundaries, it does not assert any superiority over the other departments it does not in reality nullify or invalidate an act of the legislature, but only asserts the solemn and sacred obligation assigned to it by the Constitution to determine conflicting claims of authority under the Constitution and to establish for the parties in an actual controversy the rights which that instrument secures and guarantees to them. and DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT SECRETARY FLORENCIO B. FUA, SR., Petitioners,ĮXECUTIVE SECRETARY PAQUITO N. THE PHILIPPINE TRUTH COMMISSION OF 2010, Respondent.
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