Tydings–McDuffie Act 1

Tydings–McDuffie Act
The Tydings-McDuffie Act (officially the Philippine Independence Act; Public Law 73-127) approved on March
24, 1934 was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino
independence (from the United States) after a period of ten years. It was authored by Maryland Senator Millard E.
Tydings and Alabama Representative John McDuffie.
In 1934, Philippine politician Manuel L. Quezon headed a "Philippine Independence mission" to Washington, DC
that successfully secured the act's passage in Congress.
The Tydings–McDuffie Act provided for the drafting and guidelines of a Constitution for a 12-year "transitional
period" which became the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines before the granting of Philippine
independence, during which the US would maintain military forces in the Philippines. Furthermore, during this
period the American President was granted the power to call into military service all military forces of the Philippine
government. The act permitted the maintenance of US naval bases, within this region, for two years after
independence.
The act reclassified all Filipinos that were living in the United States as aliens for the purposes of immigration to
America. Filipinos were no longer allowed to work legally in the US, and a quota of 50 immigrants per year was
established.
Furthermore, the Act paved the way for the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935.

External links
• The text of The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act) [1]

References
[1] http:/ / www. chanrobles. com/ tydingsmcduffieact. htm
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