The nation is mourning the demise of former Senator Rene Saguisag, one of the pillars of the protest movement that sparked the Edsa Revolt of 1986, who passed a
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Democracy is the lynchpin of a society that values liberty, and the ultimate standard of legitimacy of any government that imposes authority upon its people. Unlike an authoritarian system of government where political power rests with the dictator or the oligarch, power and privilege belong to the sovereign people in a democracy. Etymologically,…