A united and independent Senate

Yesterday's PDI headline read: Senate junks Con-ass

Kids let loose in a candy store

Fr. Joaquin Bernas, S.J. had a very interesting thing to say the other day:

...there is good technical reason for opposing the proposal [for Congress to convene as Constituent Assembly].... The good technical reason is that a constituent assembly, whether consisting of both houses of Congress or of a constitutional convention, is a peculiar sort of animal. Once it comes into existence and is convened, it takes on an independent life of its own. Nobody can limit the scope of what it wants to do.

Or to put it mildly, members of the Con-ass would be like kids let loose in a candy store.