Batasang Bayan

The Batasang Bayan (English: Legislative Advisory Council) was the consultative assembly & legislative advisory council that help formulate decrees promulgated by the Ferdinand Marcos from its inauguration on September 21, 1976 to October 30, 1978. As such powers & functions shall consist of but not limited to helping & advising the President of his lawmaking functions, providing a forum for the citizenry, through the herein designated representatives, to ventilate their views on national issues, as well as their opinions on the manner of administering the affairs of the government, providing a forum for the rationalization, unification, & clarification on the policies & programs of the Executive Branch of Government & providing a mechanism for actually conducting a review of the structures, policies & efficiencies of the different Barangays & Sanggunians & submit its finding & recommendations to the President as mandated by the 1973 Constitution as the Philippines shifted from a presidential to a parliamentary type of government & Presidential Decree No. 995.