2. • The 1935 Constitution (1935-1943, 1945-
1973)
• The 1943 Constitution (1943-1945)
• The 1973 Constitution (1973-1986)
• The 1987 Constitution (1987-present)
3. Government of the Phils
• The Pre-Spanish Government
• Government during the Spanish period
• Government during the revolutionary Era
• - katipunan government
• - The Biak na Bato Republic
• -Dictatorial Government(Spanish-American
War) under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo
4. • -revolutionary Government (Aguinaldo
replacing Dictatorship Government)
• The First Republic ( ratification of the Malolos
Constitution- better known as 1935
constitution)
.
5. Framing of 1935 constitution
• Approved on March 24, 1934 by Pres Franklin
D. Roosevelt of the Tydings McDuffie Law,
otherwise known as the Philippine
Independence Act
• But did not contain the original ideas of
governemnt.
6. Amendments
• Establishment of a bicameral legislature
• Allowing the re-eligibility of the President and
the Vice-President for a second four (4) year
term of office
• Creating a separate Commissions on Elections
• Parity Amendments- gave American citizens
equal rights with the Filipinos in the
exploitation of our natural resources and
operation of public utilities.
7. The 1973 Constituion
• Framing:
• Taking into account the “felt necessities of the
times”, Congress in joint session on March 16,
1967 passed Resolution of Both Houses No.2
as amended by Resolution No 4 passed on
June 17, 1969 authorizing the holding of a
Constituonal Convention in 1971
8. Amendments
• Making the then incumbent President, the
Regular president and the regular Prime
Minister.
• Granting concurrent law-making powers to
the President which latter exercised even after
the lifting of Martial Law in 1981.
• Establishing a modified parliamnetary form of
government
9. • Permitting natural-born citizens who have lost
their citizenship to be transferees of private
land, for use by them as residence.
• Allowing the ‘grant” of lands of the public
domain to qualified citizens
• Providing for urban land reform and social
housing program
10. The 1987 Constitution
• Framing:
- drafted by a Constitutional Commission
created under Article V of Proclamation No 3
issued on March 25, 1986 which promulgated
the Provisional Constitution or “Freedom
Constitution” following the installation of a
revolutionary government through a direct
exercise of the power of the Filipino people.
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11. Amendments
• Recognition of the aid of Almighty God
• Sovereignty of the people
• Renunciation of war as an instrument of
national policy
• Supremacy of the civilian authority over the
military
• Seoaration of the Church and the State
12. • Recognition of the importance of the family as
a basic social institution and the vital role of
the youth in nation building
• Guarantee of human righhts
• Government through suffrage
• Separation of powers
• Independence of the judiciary
• Guarantee of local autonomy
13. • High sense of public service morality and
accountability of public officers
• Nationalization of natural resources and
certain private eneterprise affected with
public interest
• Non suability of the State
• Rule of Majority
• Government of laws and not of men
