[OPINION] The slow undoing of the Philippine Senate presidency
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The Senate presidency has never been designed as a personal office. From the Roman princeps senatus — with Cicero as the last to bear the title — to Westminster’s Lord Speaker to the American Senate president pro tempore, the presiding officer of the upper chamber has always been known as the institution’s leading servant — not its self-appointed master.
When the Jones Act of 1916 created the Philippine Senate, its first Senate president — and the longest serving one — Manue
When the Jones Act of 1916 created the Philippine Senate, its first Senate president — and the longest serving one — Manue
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