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Foreign citizens and companies are prohibited from fully owning land in the Philippines under the 1987 Constitution. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] There is also a 40 percent cap imposed on foreign ownership of companies, with exemptions such as firms engaged in the telecommunications, airlines, shipping, railways and irrigation sectors. [ 40 ]
The U.S. governed the Philippines as an unincorporated territory [10] that was not considered an integral part of the country and where the Constitution of the United States did not fully apply. [18] Philippine citizens were treated as non-citizen U.S. nationals, rather than full citizens. [19]
When the Philippines gained independence from the United States in 1946, many Americans chose to settle there permanently. Until the mid-1990s, Americans were concentrated in the cities of Angeles and Olongapo, northwest of Metro Manila, because of the large US military bases there. During the American colonial period (1898–1946), a recorded ...
The first US land patent was issued on March 4, 1788, to John Martin. [4] That patent reserves to the United States one third of all gold, silver, lead and copper within the claimed land. A land patent for a 39.44-acre (15.96 ha) land parcel in present-day Monroe County, Ohio, and within the Seven Ranges land tract.
US President Harry Truman signing into law the Luce–Celler Act in 1946 [1]. The Luce–Celler Act of 1946, Pub. L. No. 79-483, 60 Stat. 416, is an Act of the United States Congress which provided a quota of 100 Filipinos [2] and 100 Indians from Asia to immigrate to the United States per year, [3] which for the first time allowed these people to naturalize as American citizens.
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The United States of America obtained the Spanish claim over the Philippines following the Spanish–American War in 1898 and conquered the country from the Philippine Republic after the Philippine–American War in 1902. The Second Philippine Commission, the Taft Commission, viewed economic development as one of its top three goals. [1]
The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [2] The zone's coordinates are between 116° 40', and 126° 34' E longitude and 4° 40' and 21° 10' N latitude . It is bordered by the Philippine Sea [ 3 ] to the east and north, the South China Sea [ 4 ] to the west, and the Celebes Sea [ 5 ] to the south.