Atty-at-Work explains that a people’s initiative cannot amend the Constitution because there is no requisite law, and calls the signature campaign a legal zombie.

And here’s what’s most striking:

Unless Congress hurries to enact the Constitutionally-required enabling law for initiatives to amend the Constitution or does a Marcos-style barangay-level “referendum”, the signature campaign is a legal zombie; it serves no legal purpose.

Strike the enabling law out, the Senate will not tolerate such rush. The second one is scary, since the barangay-level “referendum” was legalized by the Supreme Court back then. What would keep the Arroyo administration from doing this stunt (the SC decisions are considered legal precedents), and what would keep the current Supreme Court from upholding that stunt?

The SC decisions on EO 464 and Proclamation 1017 will tell us.