The need to be aware and keep abreast for
our nation’s political issues and concepts has to be inoculated into the minds
of each Filipino individual. I think it should be or else many people will be
hungered for the truth and be blinded for the obscured things the entire government
system is running. Just as we know, there are a lot of laws formed for our
benefit but what are exactly the conditions and sanctions embodied to each of
it? We keep on complaining about almost everything and poke the government to
do something but the problem is we never dare to go deeper into the situation
or even tried to check that our government really pushes their limits for the
sake of serving the Filipino people. This and all of the political problems we
have in this country are just fractions into studying the science of Politics,
it is in the name of Polsci itself.
Being an introductory part and coined as the ‘prologue’ of the constitution, the preamble serves as an aid of interpretation which has an objective to establish a justice system and government to maintain order and peace. The different citizenship values contained in the preamble of the Philippine constitution include freedom, love, truth, justice, equality and peace.
Furthermore, since the
Philippines is a democratic and a republican state, the bill of rights, the
observance of the rule of majority, presence of election through popular will
and the like are manifested and are exercised by the people nowadays as a
privilege given by the government. Suffrage as conferred by the
constitutional provision, is not a natural right of the citizens, but a
political right intended to enable them to participate in the process of
government to assure it derives its powers from the consent of the governed.
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country and has
the right of equal access to public service in his country. The will of the
people shall be the basis of the authority of government as this will shall be
expressed in periodic and genuine elections and shall be held by secret vote or
by equivalent free voting procedures. The civilian authority is supreme
over the military because this authority comes from the people voting while
the military authority on the other hand, is not in an electoral category.
Given that we, as citizens of the Philippine republic have the right to revolt
if only a certain constitution is sufficiently provoked by oppression or
abuses.
Also, political science intrigues me in a
sense that the separation of the church and the state shall be inviolable. It
answered my question why can’t the church interfere with the government’s
decision of enforcing laws (like RH Bill) when in fact the church strongly disagreed
to it and several attempts were made just to halt the President’s approval of
it. And that is because the church is purely on ecclesiastical affairs which
involve the relationship between the churches while the state is purely on
secular matters.
As a Filipino citizen, I got interested
about the bill of rights enumerated by the constitution and as I scrutinized
every single detail about it, most them are giving us the freedom to do
something for the benefit of humanity like the freedom of speech with
emphasizes our right to speak and be heard what the masses should know.
Again in such a short period of time, I was
able to look through everything about our government. I was able to take a
grasp of what could have been my lost if I didn’t take the subject seriously or
if I taken this for granted. The schedule of our class doesn’t matter because
as long as you listen to our dear instructor attentively, you will get what you
deserve and that would be the insights that can be applied in today’s run of
government.
In today’s time, every Filipino citizen should be involved in any political
matters. Let everyone be aware that we have the power and authority to express
and let our voices be heard for the improvement of our government and be
receptive towards the changes that will come over time. I know political
science doesn’t limit to politics and government but it has its mission to
create a good citizenship and build credible democratic values to the people
being concerned to this. Thus, the study of Political Science has special
importance in all countries. Its study helps us to understand the mechanism and
constitutional systems of modern government.
