TY - BOOK AU - Espiritu, Augusto Caesar TI - How democracy was lost: a political diary of the constitutional convention of 1971-1972 SN - 971-10-0533-6 AV - JQ 1411 .Es65 1993 PY - 1993///];copyright 1993 CY - Quezon City PB - Reinhild Espiritu-Traitler and New Day Pub KW - Espiritu, Augusto Caesar KW - sears KW - Philippines KW - Philippines. Constitutional Convention (1971-1972) N2 - This diary was written in the hope that, as Polybius had noted that at an earlier period, we might learn from the experience-a term, Oscar Wilde says, we like to use for our past mistakes. Now that the long night of repression is but a nightmare, might not the new generation of Filipinos demand that we confront the problem of national guilt for which a cowed, confused and disoriented older generation was responsible? ER -