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54 Ateneo L.J. 1 (2009-2010)

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The Mindanao Question: Constitutional

    Dialogue in Southern Philippines
    A. Edsel C. F. Tupaz*



I.  OVERVIEW             ...........................  ...................... I
II. CONSTITUTIONAL     LEGITIMACY..................................................... 2
III. THE ENFORCEMENT MODEL ...................................................... 7
IV. DIALOGICAL   CONSTITUTIONALISM AND
    PRIN CIPLED  AM BIGUITY  ............................................................... IO
    A. Liberal Legality as a Fighting Faith
    B. Dialogical Democracy in Constitutional Form
V . C A SE ST U D IES................................................................................30
    A. South Africa
    B. South Africa and Northern Ireland
    C. South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Southern Philippines
V I. C O N CLU SIO N .............................................................................5 7



                               I. OVERVIEW

In this Article, I analyze strikingly parallel constructive negotiations and
constitutional dialogue between Northern  Ireland and South  Africa in post-
conflict reconstruction. In particular, I examine their political milieu and
gauge   what   might   be  termed   as  transformative  and   dialogical

* '08   LL.M.,  Harvard Law  School; '03 J.D., with honors, Ateneo de Manila
University School of Law. He once clerked for Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
&  Justice Ma. Alicia Austria-Martinez, Supreme Court of the Republic of the
Philippines. The author was previously an Editor (2002-2003) and Staff (2001-2002)
of the Ateneo  Law Journal. His past works published in  the Journal include:
Constitutional Courts in Divided Societies: A Call for Scholarship on International
Intervention in Constitutional Law and Politics, 53 ATENEo L.J. 324 (2008); Deliberative
Democracy and Weak Courts: Constitutional Design in Nascent Democracies, 53 ATENEO
L.J. 343 (2008); Sel-Determination as Defined Under the United Nations Draft
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Secession or Autonomy?, 51 ATENEO L.J.
1039 (2007); Ruiz v. Court of Appeals: A Moral Hazard, 49 ATENEo L.J. 982 (2004);
A  Synthesis of the Colloquium on Indigenous Peoples, 47 ATENEo L.J. 775 (2002); The
People Power and the Supreme Court in Estrada v. Arroyo, 47 ATENEo L.J. 8 (2002). This
Article is a modified version of one of the author's works, A Dialogical-Republican
Revival: Respect-worthy Constitutionalism in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland, South Africa,
and Southern Philippines, 54 WAYNE L. REV.  1295  (2009). The author thanks
Professors Frank Michelman, Mark Tushnet, Noah  Weisbord, Chris Taggart, Ori
Aronson, and Rosalind Dixon for their invaluable support for this Article.

Cite as 54 ATENEo L.J. I (2009).


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