1899: MALOLOS CONSTITUTION Flashcards
- After the signing of the _____, the Filipino revolutionary leaders accepted a payment from Spain and went to exile in Hong Kong.
truce
1899:
MALOLOS CONSTITUTION
- Upon the defeat of the Spanish to the Americans in the battle of Manila Bay on ___________, the United States Navy transported Aguinaldo back to the Philippines.
1 May 1898
- The _______________ was elected, which selected a commission to draw up a draft constitution_____________ , which was composed of _____ and _________.
Malolos Congress
17 September 1898 wealthy
educated men
MALOLOS CONSTITUTION
1899:
The newly formed Philippine revolutionary forces reverted to the control of Aguinaldo, and the Philippine Declaration of Independence was issued on _______________, together with several decrees that formed the First Philippine Republic.
12th of June 1898
- The document they came up with, approved by the congress on __________, and promulgated by Aguinaldo o ____________, was titled “_________________” and written in ______.
29 November 1898
21 of January 1899
The Political Constitution of 1899
Spanish
- The constitution has __________ divided into_________, with _________ , and a ______________.
39 articles
14 titles
8 articles of transitory provisions
final additional article
- The document was patterned after the Spanish Constitution of 1812, with influences from the charters of _____, ______, ______, _________, _________, and ________, and ____________-.
Belgium
Mexico
Brazil
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Guatemala
the French Constitution of 1793
- According to ___________, main author of the constitution, these countries were studied because they shared ______,_________ , ___________, and _________ conditions with the Philippines.
Felipe Calderon
social
political
ethnological
governance
- Prior constitutional projects in the Philippines also influenced the___________, namely, __________ and ______________, _____________;____________: ________________;______________- that followed ____________; and ______________.
- Malolos constitution
- the Kartilya
- the Sanggunian-Hukuman
- the charter of laws and morals of the Katipunan written by Emilio Jacinto in 1896
- the Biak-na-Bato constitution of 1897 planned by Isabelo Artacho;
- Mabini’s Constitutional Program of the Philippine republic of 1898;
- the provisional constitution of Mariano Ponce in 1898
- the Spanish constitutions
- the Autonomy projects of Paterno in 1898
- As a direct challenge to colonial authorities of the Spanish empire, the sovereignty was retroverted to the people, a legal principle underlying the Philippine Revolution. The people delegated governmental functions to civil servants while they retained actual sovereignty. The _______________________detail the popular rights and national sovereignty of the Filipinos, the enumeration of which does not imply the prohibition of any other rights not expressly stated.
27 articles of the Title IV
- ________________ also declares that the state recognizes the freedom and equality of all beliefs, as well as the separation of Church and State. These are direct reactions to features of the Spanish government in the Philippines, where the first friars were dominant agents of the state.
Title III, Article V
- The form of government according to ________________is to be popular, representative, alternative, and responsible, and shall exercise three distinct powers- legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative power was vested in a unicameral body called the Assembly of Representatives, members of which are elected for terms of four years.
Title II, Article 4
The )______________ will serve a term of four years without re-election.
president
