HISTORY

• Commonwealth


  An independent country or community especially a democratic republic
• Commonwealth in the Philippines


  • Administrative body that governed the Philippines from 1935 to 1946, aside from a period of exile in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 when Japan colonizes the country
• Cooper act (Philippine Bill of 1902 or Philippine Organic Act) implemented by the United States in the Philippines

  1902
• Cooper act (Philippine Bill of 1902 or Philippine Organic Act)


  Law that stipulated the granting of rights to free speech and expression, freedom from imprisonment for debt, equality before the law and freedom from slavery
• The purpose of the Cooper act is to make laws for the Filipinos
• Election held for the Pambansang Asamblea


  July 30, 1907
• Inauguration of the Pambansang Asamblea held at the Grand Opera House

  October 16, 1907
• Pambansang Asamblea


  • Sergio Osmeña became the speaker and Manuel L. Quezon was the leader of the majority of the members. Benito Legarda, Sr. was also appointed. and Pablo Ocampo as the representative of the Philippines in the United States Congress
• Legislative power in the Philippines exercised through a Philippine Commission effectively dominated by Americans

  1901
• Jones Act


  Statute announcing the intention of the United States government to "withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands as soon as a stable government can be established therein"
• The Jones Act replaced the Commission with an elective Senate and, with minimum property qualifications, extended the franchise to all literate Filipino males
• The Jones Act incorporated a bill of rights
• The OsRox Mission campaign for self-government and United States recognition of the independence of the Philippines

  1931
• Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act passed, the first US law setting a process and a date for the Philippines to gain independence from the United States

  1933
• Tydings-McDuffie Act provided for Philippine independence, to take effect on July 4, 1946, after a 10-year transitional period of Commonwealth government


  1934
• Commonwealth Constitution approved by the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt


  March 23, 1935
• Manuel Luis Quezon


  • 1st elected President of the Philippine Commonwealth (1935-1944), lawyer by profession, placed 4th in the bar exam, served as Governor of Tayabas (Quezon), Senate President before elected as Philippine President
• Sergio Osmeña


  • Elected Vice President of the Philippine Commonwealth (1935-1944), assumed as President of the Philippine Commonwealth (1944-1946), lawyer by profession, served as Governor of Cebu, elected as Speaker of the house before becoming a senator
• National Defense Act


  Purpose was to create an independent Philippine military
• Women's Suffrage Act


  Women have the right to vote in political elections
• Pagtatag ng Pambansang Wika

  Filipino national language declared the official language, came into force on July 4, 1946
• Katarungang Panlipunan


  Social justice is the root of having order and peace in the society that every individual lives in
• Eight-Hour Labor Law


  The legal working day for any person employed by another shall be of not more than eight hours daily
• Tenancy Act (Batas Kasama')


  To establish agricultural tenancy relations between landholders tenants upon the principle of social justice; to afford adequate protection to the rights of both tenants and landholders; to insure an equitable division of the produce and income derived from the land; to provide tenant-farmers with incentives to greater and more efficient agricultural production; to bolster their economic position and to encourage their participation in the development of peaceful, vigorous and democratic rural communities
• Minimum Wage Law


  The purpose of minimum wages is to protect workers against unduly low pay. They help ensure a just and equitable share of the fruits of progress to all, and a minimum living wage to all who are employed and in need of such protection
• Court Of Industrial Relations


  There is hereby created a Court of Industrial Relations, which shall have jurisdiction over the entire Philippines, to consider, investigate, decide, and settle any question, matter, controversy or dispute arising between, and/or affecting, employers and employees or laborers, and landlords and tenants or farm-laborers, and regulate the relations between them, subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of this Act
• Homestead Law


  Homestead is a mode of acquiring alienable and disposable lands of the public domain for agricultural purposes conditioned upon actual cultivation and residence