"Equally important is the provision on the accountability of public officers. Public office is a public trust and all officials in government from the highest to the lowest are accountable for their actions in office. [Applause] The immunity from suit found in the 1973 Constitution has been discarded and the procedure of impeachment for the impeachable public officials has been liberalized. [Applause]"
— Cecillia Muñoz-Palma, closing remarks as President of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, October 15, 1986
