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(Cecilia Munoz-Palma hands over the draft constitution to Cory Aquino)
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In opposing the Marcos burial at the heroes cemetery, these pro-Aquino family commissioners claimed that the ouster of President Marcos in 1986 "is the backdrop to the drafting of the 1987 Constitution".  Sure, but how the 1987 Constitution itself bars the Marcos burial at the Libingan is not sufficiently explained by the commissioners. 
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What prompted that claim anyway?  Perhaps, the explanation is in the history of the 1986 Constitutional Commission itself.
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When President Corazon "Cory" Aquino seized power in February 1986, she unilaterally abolished the 1973 Constitution (the charter then in force) and imposed on the Filipino people a so-called "Freedom Constitution."  Aquino's "new" constitution retained the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, but eliminated the Batasang Pambansa, the legislature under the 1973 charter.  As a result, Aquino exercised both executive and legislative powers.  In other words, the government became a Cory Aquino dictatorship for the next 12 months. 
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The Marcos burial, the 1987 Constitution and the Cory Aquino dictatorship