Name: Reginaldo, Cloe Mae M.
13, 2020
Course: BSCE II-B
Compare and contrast the 1899 Malolos Constitution and 1935 Commonwealth Constitution using Venn diagram
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1899 Malolos Constitution
 Accepted payment from Spain.
 US navy transported Aguinaldo back to
Philippines.
 Philippine Declaration of Independence
was issued on 12 June 1898.
 The document approved by congress and
promulgated by Aguinaldo was title “The
Political Constitution of 1899 and was
written on Spanish.
 39 articles divided into 14 titles.
 From the influences of Belgium, Mexico,
Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala
and French Constitution of 1973 because
of the similar social, political, ethnological
and governance conditions with the
Philippines
 Kartilya and Sangguniang-Hukuman
influence Malolos Constitution.
 Not enforced due to the ongoing war
Date Submitte: Nov.
Subject Code: GE112
ACTIVITY 9
1935 Commonwealth Constitution
 Two acts of the US congress was
passed that may be considered to have
qualities of constitutionality the Philippine
Organic Act of 1902 and Philippine
Autonomy Act of 1916
 In 1932 US congressed passed the Hare-
Hawess-Cutting Act to grant Filipinos
Basic principles Independence, the bill got rejected.
and laws of a  1934, another law Tydings-McDuffie Act
nation known as Philippine Independence Act was
passed
Seeks
 Influence in the constitution was American,
Independency of it also bears traces of the Malolos
the country Constitution, the German, Spanish, and
Made during Mexican constitutions, constitution of
wars several South American countries, and the
unwritten English Constitution.
 Draft constitution was approved on 8
February 1935
 Manuel L. Quezon was elected as the
president of the commonwealth
 Interrupted by the event of WWII with the
Japanese occupying the Philippines
 Philippines was declared an independent
republic on 4 July 1946.