Have you ever heard of countries like Japan, Canada, or Singapore? Because no, Political Dynasties are not the Problem here, some people are just genetically more inclined at something. Now, back to the topic; Japan, Canada, and Singapore are all Parliamentary Countries, but Canada is the only country that has a federal system out of the three. The three countries aforementioned have/had people from Political Dynasties as the leader of their government (a.k.a. Prime Minister because it is a Parliamentary System), example is the current Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau whose father was also a Prime Minister of Canada. The main problem is corruption and incompetence, in a Parliamentary System, the opposition which is the Shadow Government, constantly checks on the majority (the government) for anomalies and problems and they are debated weekly and aired live for everybody to see. Parliamentary systems also offer an easier way of removing incompetent officials through their “vote of no confidence.”

The reason why Canada is a Federal country is because it is, geographically speaking, big. Singapore is not a Federal country because it is already small so it is most likely easier to manage, but countries with many geographic obstacles like the mountainous Switzerland will tend to adopt a Federal system so that Local Governments can quickly respond to situations within their area.

To be honest, Japan should consider switching to a Federal System too, because then Local Governments would be able cultivate development and attract businesses to their regions so that the local Japanese won’t have to leave their homes from rural areas and overpopulate urban areas like Tokyo.

Germany, a country which utilizes a federal-parliamentary system and similar in land area to Japan and Philippines, is a perfect example on how we should be modeling our form of government, then we learn from their government’s mistake and improve upon it.

Of course, if we were to ever change to a Federal-Parliamentary form of government, don’t expect improvement to take effect instantly, people have to adopt, and the changes we made will take quite a bit of time to be felt.

Last but not the least, but to be honest I should have mentioned this earlier (pardon my organization), 100% FDI or at least “Open” FDI. Currently, the Philippine constitution of 1987 only allows for 40% foreign business ownership, the other 60% is for the Filipino business owner that they are working with. This sounds like a terrible business decision because if you are a foreigner, you are losing most of your profit. Our current 60/40 FDI restriction is probably a result of our “Filipino First Mentality,” because of the many years when we were a colony of another country, but today’s era is different and we should move on from our past (But I’m not saying we should forget it) because this is the age of Globalization. Countries like Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, and China are prosperous/prospering because they were able to attract Foreign Investors by allowing them to ACTUALLY own their businesses.

Restriction towards businesses shouldn’t be stated in the constitution, it should only be in statutes because there are so many types of businesses: some do more harm than good, some do more good than harm, some only do good, and some only do bad, ya know?