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Party-list: Gil Acosta PPP: Palawan: 3rd: Manuel Sagarbarria NPC: Negros Oriental: 2nd: Members for the Minority Arnolfo Teves Jr. PDP–Laban: Negros Oriental: 3rd: Francisca Castro ACT TEACHERS: Party-list: Lawrence Lemuel Fortun: Nacionalista: Agusan del Norte: 1st: Argel Joseph Cabatbat MAGSASAKA Party-list: Ferdinand Gaite Bayan Muna ...
Thus, it was on February 2, 1987 that the 1987 Constitution took effect. On February 11, 1987, President Aquino, other government officials, and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, pledged allegiance to the Constitution. Since then, February 2 has been celebrated as Constitution Day, the date of the plebiscite.
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
The Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, sometimes known as the "Jones Law", modified the structure of the Philippine government by removing the Philippine Commission as the legislative upper house and replacing it with a Senate elected by Filipino voters, creating the Philippines' first fully elected national legislature. This act also explicitly ...
A nomination process was held to select the members of the commission. The commission was composed of 48 national, regional, and sectoral representatives, which included lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, landlords, health professionals, religious leaders, labor and peasant leaders, university professors, and journalists.
The Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) Act 2018-02-02: 10969: Amending the "National Irrigation Administration Act" or RA 3601: Free Irrigation Service Act 2018-02-07: 10970: Declaring Every August 25 as the National Tech-Voc Day 2018-02-07: 10971: Creating a Barangay: Barangay Poblacion 3 2018-02-22: 10972
The passage of the Philippine Autonomy Act instituted a mostly elective Senate as the upper house, with the House of Representatives as the lower house. This set up continued until the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines was set into force, creating a unicameral National Assembly under the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
Heeding Osmeña's urgent call during the opening session of Congress, the first legislative measure it enacted was Commonwealth Act No. 672 which restored the Philippine National Bank and organized its financial capital. The viability of the Philippine National Bank was critical to the resuscitation of the Philippine Commonwealth after the war.