Federal Republic of the Philippines: Senators’ Votes on Corona Impeachment

Senators’ Votes on Corona Impeachment

May 29, 2012, impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona is convicted and removed from office as head of the Supreme Court with the following votes:

Voted to CONVICT (20)	Voted to ACQUIT (3)
Edgardo J. Angara	Joker P. Arroyo
Alan Peter S. Cayetano	Miriam Defensor Santiago
Pia S. Cayetano	Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos, Jr.
Franklin M. Drilon
Francis "Chiz" G. Escudero
Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada
Teofisto "TG" Guingona III
Gregorio B. Honasan II
Panfilo M. Lacson
Manuel "Lito" M. Lapid
Loren B. Legarda
Sergio R. Osmeña III
Kiko Pangilinan
Aquilino Martin “Koko” dela Llana Pimentel III
Ralph G. Recto
Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr.
Vicente C. Sotto III
Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV
Manny Villar
Juan Ponce Enrile

Federal Republic of the Philippines

Government

A federal Philippines means that a measure of the chief executive’s power — like the control of tax revenues, designation of official languages — is devolved to the regions and provinces to allow them the freedom to effectively administer themselves under the ultimate power of the central government. The regions and provinces are now organized into federal states, ideally created by ethnic lines and families or what are called ethnic states.

Economy

The economy of a federal Philippines is characterized by genuine fiscal decentralization and regional specialization. Fiscal decentralization is the distribution of financial functions from the national government to the regions; and specialization happens where federal states, their cities and provinces, devote their resources to separate industries.

Culture

Philippine culture is diverse, with over 80 ethnolinguistic groups native to the country. The federal Philippine nation would ideally consist of 22 ethnic states, each free in fostering its own culture and languages. In this way, the Philippines will preserve and sustain its rich cultural diversity.

History

The Philippines is a federation that hasn't yet been. For an archipelago originally home to a collage of rajahnates, sultanates and barangay chieftaincies, if this were to end up as one nation without imperialists coming to capture and carelessly consolidate the different tribes into a single colony, the Philippines would have been a federation.