Ferdinand Edralin Marco’s Place in Philippine History is Secured. The beneficiaries of the February 1986 accidental events of time, place and personalities, remarkable only for being unremarkable in constitutionalism, have fashioned and sustained a litany and barrage of adverse publicity to efface President Marcos from the tapestry of history. They pursued what notable poet and Senator of the College of Justice Sir Richard Maitland sharply observed: “The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people wrote or said about it.” However, if we were to speak or write only about the bad of the dead, history would be even littered with more inaccuracies than it is now. Marcos’s achievements and contributions are a matter of record. To obliterate his achievements/contributions from the pages of history is to distort the past and mislead the future. Succeeding administrations have inordinately used laws and the media to destroy or consign Marcos to oblivion, notwithstanding his solid unprecedented achievements for the good of the nation and its people. Good deeds, especially those beneficial to the nation and the people, cannot be effaced or expunged. Good survives and triumphs in the end. FM’s place in history is secure. The Marcos laws abound around and benefit us. They are embedded in our legal system and they continue to govern and guide the nation. Marcos’s vision and foresight in lawmaking for governance are richly illustrated by the varied and numerous legal issuances.