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[1]: 53 Local priests often held powers in towns, carrying out Spanish orders and collecting taxes. [7]: 1077 In areas where the population had not been consolidated into towns, priests travelled between villages. [8]: 27 Ultimate power was held by the King and the Council of the Indies, with the Philippines being part of New Spain.
[10]: 53 Ultimate power was held by the King and the Council of the Indies, with the Philippines being part of New Spain, [106]: 1077 although the islands functioned practically autonomously. [108]: 25 The Philippines had their own Governor [106]: 1077 and a judicial body was established in 1583.
The types of sovereign state leaders in the Philippines have varied throughout the country's history, from heads of ancient chiefdoms, kingdoms and sultanates in the pre-colonial period, to the leaders of Spanish, American, and Japanese colonial governments, until the directly elected president of the modern sovereign state of the Philippines.
Proclamations (Filipino: Pagpahayag), [2] according to Book III, Title I, Chapter II, Section 4 of Administrative Code of 1987, refer to the "Acts of the President fixing a date or declaring a status or condition of public moment or interest, upon the existence of which the operation of a specific law or regulation is made to depend.
Visualizing American empire: Orientalism and imperialism in the Philippines\ (University of Chicago Press, 2010) online. Capozzola, Christopher. Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century (2020) online; also see online scholarly review of this book; Cullather, Nick (1994).
After the World War II Japanese invasion in 1941 and subsequent occupation of the Philippines, the United States and Philippine Commonwealth military completed the recapture of the Philippines after Japan's surrender and spent nearly a year dealing with Japanese troops who were not aware of the war's end, [3] leading up to U.S. recognition of ...
The Constitution of the Philippines (Filipino: Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas or Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas) is the supreme law of the Philippines.Its final draft was completed by the Constitutional Commission on October 12, 1986, and ratified by a nationwide plebiscite on February 2, 1987.
Philippine President Quezon led a twelfth independence mission to Washington to secure a better independence act. The result was the Philippines Independence Act, more popularly known as the "Tydings–McDuffie Act", of 1934, which was ratified by the Philippine Senate. The law provided for the granting of Philippine independence by 1946.