Access agreements can circumvent constitutional bans on foreign bases

Evidence

“Access, not bases” has become a mantra for some—although sometimes, as in the Philippines since 2001, “access” can become just another euphemism for a base. Through the work of DuBois and other U.S. negotiators in the Philippines, as many as six hundred American special forces troops began operating in the country’s south in early 2002, using perhaps as many as seven lily pads. Kaplan, one of the few journalists to visit the bases, noted that despite the Philippines’ constitutional ban on foreign bases, the new deployment “had succeeded as a political mechanism for getting an American base-of-sorts up and running.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 156

Categorization

• QUESTION: How do host governments justify access agreements that functionally recreate the bases their own constitutions ban?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 156
• XREF: connects to: Every regulatory exemption functions as an exploitable loophole