malacanan: The Batasang Pambansa building was inaugurated on June 12, 1978. On the same date, Ferdinand E. Marcos, as both President and Prime Minister, delivered his maiden address to the just-convened Interim Batasang Pambansa: Time and time again we faced this test. Today, we face it again. It may be that we face in this assembly the culmination of all the challenges and the frustrations of the past, the trials that had engaged our historic congresses, the fateful test of our national capacity for making constitutional democracy our unfailing instrument of national vitality and purpose. For the circumstances surrounding this historic assembly, while yet admitting the need for the continued enforcement of emergency government, bear the seeds of a strong and dynamic legislature that will surely germinate if we give it the full commit­ment of our talents and energies. ——— The State of the Nation Address: Traditions and History. The 72 State of the Nation Addresses. Congress and the Presidency.
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malacanan:

The Batasang Pambansa building was inaugurated on June 12, 1978. On the same date, Ferdinand E. Marcos, as both President and Prime Minister, delivered his maiden address to the just-convened Interim Batasang Pambansa:

Time and time again we faced this test. Today, we face it again. It may be that we face in this assembly the culmination of all the challenges and the frustrations of the past, the trials that had engaged our historic congresses, the fateful test of our national capacity for making constitutional democracy our unfailing instrument of national vitality and purpose. For the circumstances surrounding this historic assembly, while yet admitting the need for the continued enforcement of emergency government, bear the seeds of a strong and dynamic legislature that will surely germinate if we give it the full commit­ment of our talents and energies.

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