AN alliance of professors, students, writers and cultural activists on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reverse its ruling issued on October 9 which declared as constitutional the order issued by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) excluding Filipino, Panitikan and Philippine Constitution among the core subjects in the general education curriculum in college.
In a 19-page motion for reconsideration, Tanggol Wika insisted that the constitutional provisions they relied upon in assailing the constitutionality of CHEd Memorandum Order (CMO) 20 Series of 2013 are “self-executing.”
The Court, in its ruling, held that Section 6, Article XIV on the use of the Filipino language as medium of instruction is not self-executory.
But group noted that the Constitution states that “national language of the Philippines is Filipino” and “shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.”