ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS HOUSE Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is on the warpath against the judiciary, when the last thing the country needs now is for these two branches of government to be at each other’s throats while the President is busy fighting another war in Marawi. I am not a lawyer. But in my profession as an inhabitant of the discipline of political science, we see things not in the context of the hardened boundaries of the law, but in the dynamic context of political institutions. It is germane in our constitutional democracy that the branches of government have specific tasks assigned vis-à-vis the law. The executive implements the law that the legislature makes, and when there is...
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