04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly BJE; x x x [23] Paragraph 2.a, Territory states: a. The GRP and MILF as the Parties to this Agreement commit themselves to the full and mutual implementation of this framework agreement on territory with the aim of resolving outstanding issues that emanate from the consensus points on Ancestral Domain. [24] Article VI, Section 1. The legislative power shall be vested in the Congress of the Philippines which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives, except to the extent reserved to the people by the provision on initiative and referendum. [25] 354 Phil. 948, 966 (1998). [26] Article XVII – Amendments or Revisions Sec. 1. Any amendment to, or revision of, this Constitution may be proposed by: (1) The Congress, upon a vote of three-fourths of all its Members, or (2) A constitutional convention. Sec. 2. Amendments to this Constitution may likewise be directly proposed by the people through initiative x x x. [27] G.R. No. 174153, October 25, 2006, 505 SCRA 160, 247. SEPARATE CONCURRING OPINION CARPIO, J.: If this Court did not stop the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), this country would have been dismembered because the Executive branch would have committed to amend the Constitution to conform to the MOA-AD. The MOA-AD gives to the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) the attributes of a state, with its own people, territory, government, armed forces, foreign trade missions, and all other institutions of a state,[1] under the BJE's own basic law or constitution.[2] Usurpation of the Powers of Congress and the People The initialed MOA-AD between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is patently unconstitutional. The Executive branch's commitment under the MOA-AD to amend the Constitution to conform to the MOA-AD violates Sections 1 and 4, Article XVII of the Constitution. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/47263 91/203