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The following table lists Philippine laws that have been mentioned in Wikipedia or are otherwise notable. Only laws passed by Congress and its preceding bodies are listed here; presidential decrees and other executive issuances which may otherwise carry the force of law are excluded for the purpose of this table.
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 ...
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 legal system is a hybrid form based on the Spanish civil law and American common law system, [32]: 304–305 with a system of Sharia law in place for some areas of law involving Muslims. [33] [26]: 10874
Per the Local Government Code of 1991, section 25, the President of the Philippines exercises direct supervisory authority over provinces and independent cities (i.e., highly urbanized and independent component cities); thus, LGUs that belong to these categories form the primary level of LGUs in the Philippines.
Department of the Interior and Local Government: Kagawaran ng Interyor at Pamahalaang Lokal: March 22, 1897; 127 years ago () Secretary of the Interior and Local Government: Jonvic Remulla: Department of Justice: Kagawaran ng Katarungan: April 17, 1897; 127 years ago () Secretary of Justice: Jesus Crispin Remulla
Revolutionary government: Assembly of Representatives First Republic: 2 Taft Commission: 2nd: Unicameral assembly: Philippine Commission: Unelected 5–8 March 16, 1900 U.S. military government: U.S. Insular Government: 3 Philippine Legislature: 1st: Philippine Commission: Unelected 8–9 Philippine Assembly: July 30, 1907: 59 Nacionalista 16 ...
The order of precedence in the Philippines is the protocol used in ranking government officials and other personages in the Philippines. [1] Purely ceremonial in nature, it has no legal standing, and does not reflect the presidential line of succession nor the equal status of the three branches of government established in the 1987 Constitution .