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[7]: 1076 While they rejected proposals for a federal system or autonomy in favor of a more easily controlled centralized system, [27]: 179 [28]: 48 the Americans gave Filipinos limited self-government at the local level by 1901, [32]: 150–151 holding the first municipal elections, [33] and passed the Philippine Organic Act in 1902 to ...
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
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.
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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 ...
After the fall of particular Philippine dominions to the Kingdom of the Spains and the Indies which started in 1565, due to the much earlier Spanish royal authorization given to the royal audience and chancery of New Spain on 26 February 1538 to prohibit the title of "lord" from being adopted by the nobles of acquired overseas dominions, since ...
The Sixth Annual Report of the United States High Commission to the Philippine Island to the President and Congress of the United States, Covering the Fiscal Year July 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942, Washington D.C. October 20, 1942; Executive Orders of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Manila, Bureau of Printing 1945
Elliott, Charles Burke (1917), The Philippines: To the End of the Commission Government, a Study in Tropical Democracy (PDF). Guevara, Sulpico, ed. (2005), The laws of the first Philippine Republic (the laws of Malolos) 1898–1899 , Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library (published 1972) (English translation by Sulpicio Guevara).