This, I submit, is the true solution to the moral dilemma we are facing in Grace Poe’s case: of excluding Ms. Poe as a candidate in the May 9 election because of her constitutional ineligibility to run; or allowing her to run simply because the Supreme Court says she can run despite what the Constitution explicitly bans.

The moral dilemma arises from the conflict between principles: (1) the principle that the Constitution is supreme in our country, to be upheld always and without exception, and (2) the principle that the Supreme court is the highest interpreter of the law.

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