Initiating Change? People’s Initiative as a Mode of Changing the 1987 Constitution (Draft)

This paper explores the pros and cons of a people’s initiative, by revisiting the attempts of PIRMA and Sigaw ng Bayan, and examining the barriers to making it operational and applicable.

The Institutional Reform Paper Series presents perspectives on re-examining the institutional arrangements of the country, with topics identified from a landscape and spectrum of different issues that kept on popping out in constitutional debates and some controversies.