Constitution

What is

Constitution?
 WHY DO WE NEED

CONSITUTION?

• To state how your association is to

be structured
• To detail the safeguards needed to
ensure that it operates fairly on
behalf of the whole community
• As a basic requirement to apply for
funding
KINDS OF CONSTITUTION A Constitution may
be classified into 2 according to Sir Henry
Maine
Historical and Revolutionary
A Priori
Nature and

purpose of

Constitution
It serves as a supreme of

fundamental
Establishes the basic

framework and underlying

principles of the government

 Kinds of

Constitution
 KINDS OF

CONSTITUTION

Written -one which has been given definitive written

form at particular time, usually by a specially
constituted authority called "Constitutional
Convention"

Unwritte - one which is eternally the product of

political evolution consisting largely of a mass of
customs usage and judicial decisions together with a
smaller body of statutory enactment a fundamental
characters, usually bearing different dates.

Conventional or enacted - when is enacted by a

constituent assembly or granted by a monarch of his
subject.
 KINDS OF

CONSTITUTION
Cumulative or evolved - 1 which a product of long
growth or a long period of development originating
in customs tradition judicial decisions etc., Rather
than from a deliberate and formal enactment

Rigid or Inelastic - one regarded as a document of

special sanctity which cannot be modified in the
same manner as other law except by some special
machinery, more burdensome than the ordinary
legislative process

Flexible or Elastic - one which possesses on higher

legal authority than ordinary laws and which may
be altered or amended in the same way as other
laws.
 Essential

Characteristics

of a Good

Constitution

Clarity or Defineteness
Brevity
Comprehensiveness
Flexibility
Declaration of right
Intended of judiciary
Directive Principle of
state policy
 Constitution of

the Philippines
Preamble
-Describes the purpose of the
documents and the government

Articles
-established shadow government is
structured and how the constitution
can be change.
 Preamble of the

Philippine constitution
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of

Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society,

and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals

and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and

develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our

posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy

under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom,

love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this

Constitution,
 The 18 Articles of the

Philippine Constitution