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• is a set of fundamental principles according to which a state is governed. It symbolizes the country’s freedom and independence.

  CONSTITUTION
• The Tejeros Convention held at San Francisco de Malabon in Cavite on March 22, 1897 was the result of the Katipunan revolution


  1897 Constitution of Biak na Bato
• It was the basic law of the First Philippine Republic whose form of government was unitary semi-presidential constitutional.

  1899 Malolos Constitution or the Political Constitution of 1899
• was the first organic law enacted by the US Congress for the Philippines.

  Philippine Organic Act of 1902, also known as the “Philippine Bill of 1902”
• allowed the Philippines to have a self-government after 10 years so that Filipinos could be prepared for self-government and full independence.

  Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
• was written with the goal of meeting the US expectation of political maturity.

  During the Commonwealth period, the form of government was presidential system with the president serving a six- year term without reelection.

  1935 Philippine Constitution
• promulgated during the Japanese occupation wherein Jose P. Laurel was appointed as President.

  1943 Constitution
• President Ferdinand Marcos proclaimed martial law to suppress the increasing civil strife and the threat of communist takeover of the government. The proclamation of martial law suspended the 1935 constitution.

  1973 Constitution
• Freedom Constitution was promulgated after the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution. The first part of the proclamation reads,


  1987 Philippine Constitution