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About Corazon C. Aquino
On February 22, 1986, standing barefoot in the rain at Camp Aguinaldo with a rosary in hand, I faced down tanks not with weapons but with silence, scripture, and thousands of ordinary Filipinos who believed democracy was worth kneeling for. My leadership wasn’t forged in legislative chambers alone, it emerged from house arrests, exile in Boston where I learned American constitutional law while raising three children, and the quiet insistence that legitimacy flows from people, not decrees. The 1987 Constitution, drafted under my watch, enshrined civil liberties, abolished presidential term limits (a deliberate check against authoritarian recurrence), and created the Commission on Human Rights as an independent constitutional body, the first of its kind in Asia. I refused to pardon Ferdinand Marcos posthumously, not out of vengeance, but because truth-telling had to precede reconciliation. My feminism was untheorized but unmistakable: appointing the first female Supreme Court Chief Justice, mandating gender-responsive budgeting in local governments, and insisting that 'people power' included the power of mothers, nuns, teachers, and market vendors, not just generals and lawyers.
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