Politics (Quarter 2-Module 4)

Activity 1

If I become one of the country’s government leaders I will make a

commitment to the country-level implementation of global and regional
declarations, agendas and strategies. I’d commit to the prioritization of the
health and wellbeing agenda of every woman, every child and every
adolescent everywhere. I would make all education through the collegiate
level, or equivalent, free. Education increases opportunity for everyone. But
not all education is equal. Raising funds in a crisis is a big challenge; many
critics think that putting more resources in the hands of governments is not
the only answer. Governments, addressing both the crisis and recovery
efforts, must essentially ask what success looks like, and manage
backwards from there. In doing so, the governments should move beyond
the aggregate outcome measures to reveal the inequalities hidden behind
the means and medians.

Activity 2
 A Timeline of Evolution of the Philippine
Government and Politics
The Philippines is a republic with a presidential form of government wherein power is equally
divided among its three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. The government seeks to act in
the best interests of its citizens through this system of check and balance

The Pre-Spanish Government

(900–1565)
Before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, most people lived in small
independent villages called barangays, each ruled by a local paramount ruler called a
datu. The Spanish later founded many small towns, which they called poblaciones, and
from those centres roads or trails were built in four to six directions, like the spokes of
a wheel.

Government of the Philippines under the Spanish Rule

(1565–1898)
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial
period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the
Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Kingdom of the
Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the
Mexican empire from Spain in 1821. This resulted in direct Spanish control during a
period of governmental instability there.
The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines

(1898–1899)
The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (Spanish: Gobierno Revolucionario
de Filipinas) was a revolutionary government established in the Spanish East Indies on
June 23, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, by Emilio Aguinaldo, its initial and
only president. he government succeeded a dictatorial government which had been
established by Aguinaldo on June 18.

Philippine Government under the American Regime

(1898–1946)
The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 began with the outbreak of the
Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the
Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the
independence of the Republic of the Philippines on July 4, 1946.

The Government under the Japanese Occupation

(1942-1945) The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng

mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no
Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the
Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. Japan occupied the
Philippines for over three years, until the surrender of Japan. A highly effective
guerrilla campaign by Philippine resistance forces controlled sixty percent of the
islands, mostly forested and mountainous areas.

The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain
during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because
it was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under U.S. tutelage for a
further 48 years, the Philippines has many cultural affinities with the West.