Answer to Question #237907 in History for Joy

Question

What did Corazon Aquino mention in her speech about the aspiration of the Filipino people? What are the specific lines for this? What do you feel about these lines *

Answer 1

Pertaining to the aspirations of the Filipino people, Corazon Aquino mentioned the ratification of a Constitution which will give full recognition and protection of a citizen’s basic rights and freedoms. For instance, rights against violations of the integrity of the person; rights against interference with the sovereign prerogatives of the people to dictate the democratic government they want and to let their voices be heard. According to me, I feel these rights against abusive authority, are provisions that bind the state to the fulfillment of the just aspirations of the nation: progress, peace, security, and equity.

Specific lines for this;

''Now, we are restoring full constitutional government. Again as we restore democracy by the ways of democracy, so are we completing the constitutional structures of our new democracy under a constitution that already gives full respect to the Bill of Rights. A jealously independent constitutional commission is completing its draft which will be submitted later this year to a popular referendum. When it is approved, there will be elections for both national and local positions. So, within about a year from a peaceful but national upheaval that overturned a dictatorship, we shall have returned to full constitutional government.''