AN OPPOSITION lawmaker warned Sunday that the administration’s supermajority in the House and Senate would lead to wholesale amendments to the Constitution “simply because they have the numbers,” once Congress constitutes itself as a constituent assembly to amend the Charter.

At the same time, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman warned that choosing a constituent assembly as opposed to an elected constitutional convention as the mode of amendment would take longer, because he intended to bring the question of separate voting for the two chambers of Congress to the Supreme Court.

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