Forms of government are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contrivance. Being made by man, it is assumed that man has the choice either to make them or not, and how or on what pattern they shall be made.- John Stuart Mill

Philippine political, economic, and cultural life was correctly perceived by the Marcos theorists, themselves schooled in the Western liberal democratic tradition, as primarily oligarch in character.This oligarch system was historically rooted in the Spanish encomienda system

-The Constitutional Foundations of World Peach by Richard A Falk, et. al.

later modified into client-patron structure at the turn of the century by the American so-called experiment in democracy.The so called rebellion of the poor was recognized by the Marcos government, at least rhetorically, as the most serious challenge to its existence.

It was exacerbated by the alleged immediate threat posed to the Republic by a conspiracy of leftist Communist and rightist oligarchic elements, on the one hand, and by a Muslim secessionlist movement supported by foreign groups, on the other hand.

Thus the Marcos theorists, at least in rhetoric, repudiated, on the one hand the oligarch politics that intervened in government to preserve the political privileges of [its] wealth, and to protect [its] right to property; on the other hand, they rejected no only the weak politics of Western liberal democracy but especially the political consequences of its economic ideology, which relegated the Philippines to the status of dependent-state.

Therefore; Constitutional Authoritarianism is needed by the Filipinos.