Week 6: Philippine democratic politics

Question 1

a procedure by which members of communities and/or organizations choose persons to hold an office. It is a technique of rendering authority and/or creating representative bodies

Answer 1

election

Question 2

also known as the Philippine Organic Act passed by the US Congress in 1916, the law called for the election of the members of the Philippines Commission transforming it into the Philippine Senate.

Answer 2

Jones law

Question 3

a body created by the Americans in 1899, composed of persons appointed by the US president and working in an advisory capacity to the governor-general. By 1916, it became the Senate composed of elected members.

Answer 3

philippine comission

Question 4

a condition whereby the president and the military would have wide-ranging executive as well as legislative powers. It is usually employed under emergency conditions and declared only temporarily

Answer 4

martial law