Muntinlupeños’ Views on the Adoption of Federal-Presidential System in the Philippines: Reference for its Implementation

Roden A. Samson¹

1. College of Arts and Sciences, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa, Muntinlupa City, Philippines.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.1 , pp.1-10, Jan-2023

Online published on Jan 31, 2023

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Abstract :
Muntinlupeños refer to the people living in Muntinlupa, one of the cities in the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines. The study has three (3) general inquiries: 1) the preferred system of the respondents in terms of the form of government, 2) the respondents’ views on Federal-Presidential System, and 3) the impact of the medium of information about Federal-Presidential System to the respondents. This study used a descriptive-qualitative approach to gather and analyze the data and the respondents’ views on the proposal of adopting the Federal-Presidential System in the Philippines in which they were free to give comments for each area in the questionnaire. The study shows that the Muntinlupa residents have an overall positive view on the Federal-Presidential System though there are factors on some areas that they disagreed on. They approved on the distribution of responsibilities within the nation and state or the region as well as with the division of powers and authorities like the collection and creation of taxes, making laws about marriage, and supervision of trade and commerce. In terms of leadership, the respondents have uncertainties on some parts of the set up and arrangement of the head and leaders. They disagreed on the terms that the president will serve both as the head of the state and head of the government, and that the president will share the executive power with the prime minister. On the other note, the respondents agreed on the terms of keeping the current set-up of the government having three branches namely the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary. They also approved of the national concerns like the security or monetary policy being addressed by the federal government under the president, and of the domestic or state issues like the marital laws and criminal justice system will be handled by the state government.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Federal, Federalism, Federal-Presidential System

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