Forms of Government and Separation of Powers

1. Malolos Constitution
Title 3 Article 4

The Government of the Republic is popular, representative,

alternative, and responsible, and shall exercise three distinct
powers: namely, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Any
two or more of these three powers shall never be united in one
person or cooperation, nor the legislative power vested in one
single individual.

Title 3 Article 5

The State recognizes the freedom and equality of all

religions, as well as the separation of the Church and the
State.

2. 1935 Constitution
Constitution of the Philippines

The Filipino people, imploring the aid of Divine Providence,

in order to establish a government that shall em-body their
ideals, conserve and develop the patrimony of the nation,
promote the general welfare, and secure to themselves and
their posterity the blessings of independence under a
regime of justice, liberty, and democracy, do ordain and
promulgate this Constitution.

Following the ratification of the 1935 Philippine Constitution

in a plebiscite, the principle of separation of powers was
adopted not by express and specific provision to that effect,
but by actual division of powers of the government—
executive, legislative, and judicial—in different articles
thereof.
 3. 1973 Constitution
Article 17 Section 5

The interim National Assembly shall give priority to measures for

the orderly transition from the presidential to the parliamentary
system, the reorganization of the Government, the eradication of
graft and corruption, the effective maintenance of peace and
order, the implementation of declared agrarian reforms, the
standardization of compensation of government employees, and
such other measures as shall bridge the gap between the rich
and the poor.

4. 1987 Constitution
The 1987 Constitution established a representative
democracy with power divided among three
separate and independent branches of government:
the Executive, a bicameral Legislature, and the
Judiciary.

Article 2 Section 6

The separation of Church and State shall be

inviolable.