Instrument of last resort

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Originally published byPhilippine Daily Inquirer

This is what we forget about impeachment. It was intended to be the instrument of last resort, the “break glass in case of emergency” system when a society was confronted by an otherwise-unstoppable instance of unfitness for office. We have forgotten this aspect of impeachment because, by design, the framers of our present Constitution decided […]...

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