September 23 marks the 41st anniversary of the proclamation of martial law by President Marcos, although Marcos himself insisted on September 21. The Philippine Diary… Read More »The Delegate and the President: Contrasting Diaries on Martial Law
On the day of the signing of the Constitution, the headline of the Daily Express was “FM tells the Military: I want Free, Open Discussions… Read More »Thursday, November 30, 1972
Headline at the Express: “Delegates Approve Final Charter Draft. Signing Tomorrow.” The paper repeated its report yesterday that the delegates approved the charter draft without… Read More »Wednesday, November 29, 1972
The Daily Express said today, in an article written by Primitivo Mijares, that the draft Constitution was approved last night without any dissenting vote. But… Read More »Tuesday, November 28, 1972
The headline of the Daily Express today was “Second Reading Vote Today on Draft of Proposed Constitution.” The subheading is “Charter Reflect Spirit of New… Read More »Monday, November 27, 1972
We had session this morning from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. I missed church to go directly to Quezon City Hall. Instead of a speech… Read More »Sunday, November 26, 1972
A few of us met at Pepe Calderon’s house for our small prayer meeting. This was necessary because of the kind of dilemmas that we… Read More »Saturday, November 25, 1972
Ikeng Corpuz was actually sponsoring the Constitution when I entered. Ikeng was talking about his having worked for several days on the Constitution. Ikeng came… Read More »Friday, November 24, 1972
Our dwindling group went to the house of Pepe Calderon at noontime to assess the situation. There, Cecing Calderon (Pepe’s brother) told us that according… Read More »Thursday, November 23, 1972