Former Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Reynato Puno favors the revision of the entire 1987 Constitution.

Puno had this to say before the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, which held on Monday, Feb. 20 its seventh public consultation-slash-hearing on pro-Charter change (Cha-cha) measures filed in the current 19th Congress.

According to the former top magistrate, small or "piecemeal" amendments to the 36-year-old Charter simply won't cut it given the changing of the times.

"The 1987 Constitution is good in the decades of the 80s and 90s, or the last decades of the 20th century. We have crossed two decades of the 21st century. The world in the last decades of the 20th century is a totally different world in the opening decades of the 21st century," Puno said, providing perspective to his stance.

"The geopolitical situation in the world has undergone radical transformation. The balance of political and economic power in this planet has changed. The digital revolution is redefining our way of life, including text and textures of our fundamental rights to life, liberty, property," said the resource person.

"I need not scatter the granulars of these changes. But all these are known to your honors," Puno said, referring to the congressmen.

"I therefore comment to you that we revise the 1987 Constitution, for its piecemeal amendment will not adequately address the many problems our people have to grapple down to the ground today," he said.

The committee is chaired by Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez.