1899: MALOLOS CONSTITUTION

Question 1

• After the signing of the _____, the Filipino revolutionary leaders accepted a payment from Spain and went to exile in Hong Kong.

Answer 1

truce

Question 2

1899:

Answer 2

MALOLOS CONSTITUTION

Question 3

• Upon the defeat of the Spanish to the Americans in the battle of Manila Bay on ___________, the United States Navy transported Aguinaldo back to the Philippines.

Answer 3

1 May 1898

Question 3

• The _______________ was elected, which selected a commission to draw up a draft constitution_____________ , which was composed of _____ and _________.

Answer 3

Malolos Congress
17 September 1898 wealthy
educated men

Question 4

MALOLOS CONSTITUTION

Answer 4

1899:

Question 5

The newly formed Philippine revolutionary forces reverted to the control of Aguinaldo, and the Philippine Declaration of Independence was issued on _______________, together with several decrees that formed the First Philippine Republic.

Answer 5

12th of June 1898

Question 6

• The document they came up with, approved by the congress on __________, and promulgated by Aguinaldo o ____________, was titled “_________________” and written in ______.

Answer 6

29 November 1898
21 of January 1899
The Political Constitution of 1899
Spanish

Question 7

• The constitution has __________ divided into_________, with _________ , and a ______________.

Answer 7

39 articles
14 titles
8 articles of transitory provisions
final additional article

Question 8

• The document was patterned after the Spanish Constitution of 1812, with influences from the charters of _____, ______, ______, _________, _________, and ________, and ____________-.

Answer 8

Belgium
Mexico
Brazil
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Guatemala
the French Constitution of 1793

Question 9

• According to ___________, main author of the constitution, these countries were studied because they shared ______,_________ , ___________, and _________ conditions with the Philippines.

Answer 9

Felipe Calderon
social
political
ethnological
governance

Question 10

• Prior constitutional projects in the Philippines also influenced the___________, namely, __________ and ______________, _____________;____________: ________________;______________- that followed ____________; and ______________.

Answer 10

• Malolos constitution
• the Kartilya
• the Sanggunian-Hukuman
• the charter of laws and morals of the Katipunan written by Emilio Jacinto in 1896
• the Biak-na-Bato constitution of 1897 planned by Isabelo Artacho;
• Mabini’s Constitutional Program of the Philippine republic of 1898;
• the provisional constitution of Mariano Ponce in 1898
• the Spanish constitutions
• the Autonomy projects of Paterno in 1898

Question 11

• As a direct challenge to colonial authorities of the Spanish empire, the sovereignty was retroverted to the people, a legal principle underlying the Philippine Revolution. The people delegated governmental functions to civil servants while they retained actual sovereignty. The _______________________detail the popular rights and national sovereignty of the Filipinos, the enumeration of which does not imply the prohibition of any other rights not expressly stated.

Answer 11

27 articles of the Title IV

Question 12

• ________________ also declares that the state recognizes the freedom and equality of all beliefs, as well as the separation of Church and State. These are direct reactions to features of the Spanish government in the Philippines, where the first friars were dominant agents of the state.

Answer 12

Title III, Article V

Question 12

• The form of government according to ________________is to be popular, representative, alternative, and responsible, and shall exercise three distinct powers- legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative power was vested in a unicameral body called the Assembly of Representatives, members of which are elected for terms of four years.

Answer 12

Title II, Article 4

Question 12

The )______________ will serve a term of four years without re-election.

Answer 12

president

Question 12

• _____________–were vested in the president and elected by a constituent assembly of the Assembly of representatives and special representatives.

Answer 12

Executive powers

Question 13

There was no___________________, and in case of vacancy, a president was to be selected by the constituent assembly.

Answer 13

vice-president

Question 14

• The ___________ was never enforced due to the ongoing war. The _________- was effectively a territory of the ___________ upon the signing of the _________ between _______ and the ________, transferring sovereignty of the Philippines on ____________.

Answer 14

1899 Malolos Constitution
Philippines
United States
Treaty of Paris
Spain
United States
10 December 1898