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EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AND

CONSTITUTION
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
- BARANGAY SYSTEM HEADED BY A DATU WITH AN ADVISORY COUNCIL OF VILLAGE ELDERS

SPANISH PERIOD
- GOVERNOR GENERAL IS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE

-ROYAL AUDIENCIA IS THE SUPREME COURT

- SPANISH CORTES IS THE LAW- MAKING BODY

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

-KKK OF SUPREMO ANDRES BONIFACIO

-FIRST PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC UNDER PRESIDENT EMILIO AGUINALDO


INAUGURATING THE USE OF THE MALOLOS CONSTITUTION
AMERICAN PERIOD
- MILITARY GOVERNMENT UNDER THE FIRST MILITARY GOVERNOR GEN. WESLEY MERRITT

- PHILLIPINE COMMISSIONS 1] SCHURMAN COMMISSION 2] TAFT COMMISSION

- CIVIL GOVERNMENT UNDER THE FIRST CIVIL GOVERNOR WIILIAM H. TAFT

- JONES LAW CREATED A BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE COMPOSE OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION AND PHILIPPINE
ASSEMBLY WHICH LATER BECAME THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RESPECTIVELY

- TYDINGS-MCDUFFIE LAW GAVE A PROMISE OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE

- 1935 CONSTITUTION ESTABLISHED THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT UNDER PRES. MANUEL QUEZON

JAPANESE INVASION
- PUPPET REPUBLIC UNDER PRES. JOSE P. LAUREL [ 2ND PHIL. REPUBLIC ]

- SEPTEMBER 2 , 1945 = SIGNING OF JAPANESE SURRENDER

- JULY 4 , 1946 = AMERICA GRANTED PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE


THIRD PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC
- PRES. MANUEL ROXAS TO PRES. FERDINAND MARCOS

FOURTH PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC

- PRES. FERDINAND MARCOS ISSUED PROCLAMATION 1081 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE DECLARATION OF
MARTIAL LAW FOLLOWED BY THE USAGE OF THE 1973 CONSTITUTION

- THE ASSASSINATION OF SEN. BENIGNO AQUINO JR. AND THE RESULT OF THE 1986 SNAP ELECTION
PAVED THE WAY FOR 1986 PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION WHICH OUSTED MARCOS AND MARKED THE
START OF THE PRESIDENCY OF CORAZON AQUINO

FIFTH PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC


-PRES. CORAZON AQUINO TO PRES. RODRIGO DUTERTE

- 1987 CONSTITUTION
1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
- FREEDOM CONSTITUTION [ 1986 CONSTITUTION ] = PROVISIONAL CONSTITUTION

- THE 1986 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION WAS INAUGURATED ON JUNE 2 , 1986 AND ELECTED
CECILIA MUNOZ PALMA AS PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION. THEY COMPLETED THE DRAFT OF THE
CONSTITUTION AND APPROVED IT ON OCTOBER 12 , 1986. [45 VOTED IN FAVOR AND 2 AGAINST ]

- A PLEBISCITE WAS CALLED FOR THE PURPOSE OF RATIFYING THE NEW CONSTITUTION ON

FEBRUARY 2 ,1987 AND THE RESULT WAS PROCLAIMED ON FEBRUARY 11 , 1987.

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