Marcial's Law

The mission of Marcial’s Law is three-fold. First, it is to promote American interests within the principles of liberty, limited government, and a free market system. That includes advocating for policies and public servants who align with the original intent of America’s founders and the U.S. Constitution. Second, Martial’s Law promotes good governance in the Philippines, which also includes advocating for effective policies and public servants and the establishment and implementation of federalism. Third, Martial’s Law advocates for American-Philippine cooperation in freedom of navigation operations in the West Philippine Sea.

Marcial’s Law was founded in 2016 by Marcial Bonifacio as a counter commentary platform opposed to President Barack Obama’s administration of progressive government, which has been ongoing since President Woodrow Wilson’s administration in 1912. It is a government which has surpassed its constitutional restraints of size and scope as concocted by America’s founders, including an administrative state of unaccountable, unelected officials. Since the original government was framed to protect the unalienable rights of Americans (as the Declaration of Independence mentions), it was simple and lean. However, it has become an obese, bureaucratic, overreaching government of entitlements, often violating (instead of protecting) the unalienable rights of Americans. For this reason, Marcial’s Law advocates for the restoration of the former.

While the Philippines’ oldest ally in the West, the USA, has developed into a full-blown superpower within the short span of 150 years after its independence from England, the Philippines remains a Third World country, pervaded by corruption after its independence from the USA. Ironically, the Philippine Constitution was largely modeled after the U.S. Constitution. However, a few key features are omitted from the former, which could account for the nation’s corrupt government and stagnant development, such as an electoral college to elect the president and a horizontal system of governance known as federalism. That is why Marcial’s Law advocates a form of federalism with those elements as outlined in A Federal Philippines: A Modest Proposal.