MAY I PROPOSE some amendments to the definition given in Political Science 101 for some constitutional terms.

"Executive order" should now mean: "No public officer must be compelled to attend congressional hearings in aid of legislation if such hearings would endanger the interests of the chief executive."

"Executive privilege": "No Cabinet member, police or military officer may be forced to be a witness against himself or against the chief executive."

"Executive clemency": "All persons who are convicted of plunder (the amount involved must be at least a billion pesos) should be immediately pardoned within two months after conviction."

"People power": the "right of the people to change their oppressive or repressive government, provided, however, that its outcome and gains may be overturned by anyone of its beneficiaries; or by the chief executive for political expediency."

"Democracy": "a government of the chief executive, by the chief executive and for the chief executive."

With these changes which, anyway, are already being applied by the administration, perhaps, we can now formally "move on" on the road to national perdition and, like the lemmings entranced by the music of the Pied Piper, march off the cliff to drown in the sea of oblivion.

However, there's one better option for those who reject the present state of political affairs but refuse to stand up and resist--they can as well commit hara-kiri and, like the Japanese samurai of old, they can die, at least, with dignity.--R.B. MAGUIGAD, Libro Filipino, 2077 Claro M. Recto, Manila