PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION

Estilong, Arianne Mae R.

Level - II
Activity/Assignment #1

Search for the following:

• The Malolos Constitution

• 1935 Constitution
• 1973 Constitution
• 1986 Constitution
-Preamble & National Territory

The Malolos Constitution

1899
• The Political Constitution of 1899, informally known as the Malolos Constitution, was
the constitution of the First Philippine Republic. It was written by Felipe Calderón y
Roca and Felipe Buencamino as an alternative to a pair of proposals to the Malolos
Congress by Apolinario Mabini and Pedro Paterno. After a lengthy debate in the latter part of
1898, it was promulgated on January 21, 1899.
Preamble National Territory
We, the Representatives of the Filipino people,
lawfully covened, in order to establish justice,
All persons born in Philippine’s territory. Any
provide for common defense, promote the
sea vessel where the Philippine flag is flown, is
general welfare, and insure the benefits of liberty,
considered, for this purpose, a part of Philippines
imploring the aid of the Sovereign Legislator of
territory.
the Universe for the attainment of these ends,
have voted, decreed, and sanctioned.
 The 1935 Constitution
Preamble
The Filipino people, imploring the aid of Divine
Providence, in order to establish a government
that shall embody 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.
The 1973 Constitution
Preamble
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring
the aid of Divine Providence, in order to
establish a government that shall embody our
ideals, promote the general welfare, conserve
and develop the patrimony of our Nation, and
secure to ourselves and our posterity the
blessings of democracy under a regime of
justice, peace, liberty, and equality, do ordain
and promulgate this Constitution.
National Territory
The Philippines comprises all the territory ceded
to the United States by the Treaty of Paris
concluded between the United States and Spain
on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, the limits which are set forth in
Article III of said treaty, together with all the
islands embraced in the treaty concluded at
Washington between the United States and Spain
on the seventh day of November, nineteen
hundred, and the treaty concluded between the
United States and Great Britain on the second day
of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and all
territory over which the present Government of
the Philippine Islands exercises jurisdiction.
National Territory
The national territory comprises the Philippine
archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced
therein, and all the other territories belonging to the
Philippines by historic right or legal title, including the
territorial sea, the air space, the subsoil, the sea-bed, the
insular shelves, and the submarine areas over which the
Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction. The waters
around, between, and connecting the islands of the
archipelago, irrespective of their breadth and
dimensions, form part of the internal waters of the
Philippines. chanroterritory over which the present
Government of the Philippine Islands exercises
jurisdiction.
 Provisional Constitution
of the Philippines.
The 1986 Constitution
• The 1986 Constitution was promulgated by authority of Presidential Proclamation No. 3,
issued by President Corazon C. Aquino on 25 March 1986. President Aquino had taken office
a month previously as a result of the 1986 "People Power Revolution" in the Philippines. This
was a provisional constitution, in place during the transitional period until a comprehensive
new constitution could be drafted and ratified. It remained in effect only until February 2,
1987, when the Constitution of the Philippines (1987) was ratified.

Preamble National Territory

1987 - The national territory comprises the
1987
Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the
waters embraced therein, and all other territories
aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and
over which the Philippines has sovereignty or
humane society and establish a Government that
jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial,
shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote
and aerial domains, including its territorial sea,
the common good, conserve and develop our
the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and
patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our
other submarine areas. The waters around,
posterity the blessings of independence and
between, and connecting the islands of the
democracy under the rule of law and a regime of
archipelago, regardless of their breadth and
truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace,
dimensions, form part of the internal waters of
do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.
the Philippines.