04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly a) Article I, Section 1 [3] of the Constitution has to be amended to segregate the BJE territory from the rest of the Republic of the Philippines, as the MOA-AD delineates the Bangsamoro homeland under its paragraph 1 [4] on Territory; b) Section 1, Article X [5] of the Constitution will have to include the BJE as among the five kinds of political subdivisions recognized under the fundamental law. The provision of an Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will also have to be removed as the same is incorporated in the BJE per paragraph 2.c [6] of the MOA-AD provisions on Territory; c) The provision in Section 15, Article X [7] of the Constitution which declares the creation of the ARMM “within the framework of this Constitution and the national sovereignty as well as territorial integrity of the Republic of the Philippines” must also be changed since there is no provision in the MOA-AD that subjects the BJE to the authority, territory and sovereignty of the Republic of the Philippines; d) Section 16, Article X [8] of the Constitution which gives the President power to supervise autonomous regions will have to be amended since the MOA-AD does not provide for such supervision over the BJE; e) Section 18, Article X [9] of the Constitution which requires personal, family and property laws of autonomous regions to comply with the Constitution and laws will have to be changed as the MOA-AD grants the BJE the power to make its own laws; f) An overhaul of the various constitutional provisions relating to the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Departments as well as the independent constitutional commissions must be undertaken to accommodate paragraph 8 [10] of the MOA-AD provision on Governance which grants the BJE the power to create its own civil institutions; g) Section 3, Article II of the Constitution which declares the Armed Forces of the Philippines as protector of the people and the State will have to be changed because the MOA-AD provides that the BJE shall have its own internal security force[11] and the AFP will only defend the Bangsamoro homeland against external aggression; [12] h) Section 2, Article XII [13] of the Constitution must be changed to allow the BJE to manage, explore, develop, and utilize the natural resources within the Bangsamoro territory, pursuant to paragraphs 2.f[14] , g (1) [15] and h[16] on Territory and paragraphs 1 [17] and 2 [18] on Resources of the MOA-AD; i) Section 21, Article VII [19] of the Constitution has to be amended to exempt the BJE from the ratification requirements of treaties and international agreements since it is given the power to enter into its own elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/47263 83/203