Chapter 5 Flashcards
THE PHILIPPINES UNDER SPANISH RULE
Spain governed the Philippines through what?
Union of Church and State
benefitted under the regime and was integrated into the new
colonial order for good or ill as shown in the succeeding events.
Maharlika/Principalia (new class)
Spain claimed the Philippines by right of
‘’discovery’’ and
by right of actual occupation or conquest.
As such, the Philippines were a possession or property of the King of Spain and, therefore,
a crown colony
Primary purpose of King Charles I for sending an expedition to the Philippines
Commercial
In 1863, Philippines, as a colony, was placed under the jurisdiction of what?
Ministry of the Colonies or Overseas Ministry (Minesterio de Ultramar).
There was no legislature or congress because the laws for the
Philippines were made by the Spaniards in Spain and, to a certain
extent, by the governor–general himself. T or F
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the Overseas Ministry was advised and aided in its work by
Council of
the Indies.
Like Mexico and Spanish America, what did Philippines apply?
Laws of the Indies
Spanish laws adopted
La Novisima
Recopilacion,
Leyes de Toro, and the Siete Partidas.
Kings official representative in the colony.
governor-general
central
government was headed by who
governor and captain general or
governor–general
appointed by the King of Spain
Governon-general
possessed vast executive, legislative, and judicial powers.
governon-general
Two branches of the government
- executive
- judicial
orders with the
force of law
superior decrees.
president or presiding officer of the
Audiencia.
governor-general
vice royal patron in the Philippines
governor-general
decrees or orders coming from the King of Spain were called what
Royal decrees or orders.
the right of the
governor to suspend the operation of a Royal decree or order relative
to the Philippines if n his opinion,
cumplase
The usual formula n
exercising the right of cumplase
I obey but do not comply
The judicial powers of the government were exercised by
the Audiencia
and the lower courts
established in the Philippines
in 1583 to administer justice to the aggrieved people in the colony.
Audencia
first president of Audencia
Governor Santiago de Vera
highest court insofar as civil and criminal cases were concerned.
Audencia
