Committee to delete the word "love" in the Constitution
The committee explains that it has no place in the Constitution. "The entire country may soon know what it feels like to lose love. This comes as the House subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments proposed to remove the word "love" from the charter's preamble during its session Tuesday. "The word 'love' was deleted because it has no place in the Constitution," the subcommittee said in its report." (LOOK: 'Love' lost in proposed charter change; By CNN Philippines Staff; Updated 15:35 PM PHT Tue, January 16, 2018)
"We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society, and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution."
"We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society, and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution."