PROCLAMA TI O N O F T H E

I LI P P I N E I N D E P E N D E N C E
PH PREPARED BY: GROUP 3
BORJAL, JEROME REPTIN
ENS
BILOG, NICKA ANGELA TAL
TONE
CARIN, CLARRISE JOY PAN
YANE
ESCARTIN, MARIBEL ESTA
FABIALA, DAISY MAQUINA
FERANDO, SHEILA JUAN
DERLA, PAULITA HAGAD
•“…TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION, THAT THEIR HABITANTS BEING ALREADY WEARY OF
BEARING THE OMINOUS YOKE OF SPANISH DOMINATION, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ARBITRARY
ARRESTS AND HARSH TREATMENT PRACTICED BY THE CIVIL GUARD TO THE EXTENT OF
CAUSING DEATH WITH THE CONNIVANCE AND EVEN WITH THE EXPRESS ORDERS OF THEIR
COMMANDERS, WHO SOMETIMES WENT TO THE EXTREME OF ORDERING THE SHOOTING OF
PRISONERS UNDER THE PRETEXT THAT THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE, IN VIOLATION OF
THE PROVISIONS OF THE REGULATIONS OF THEIR CORPS, WHICH ABUSES WERE UNPUNISHED
AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNJUST DEPORTATIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE DECREED BY GENERAL
BLANCO, OF EMINENT PERSONAGES AND OF HIGH SOCIAL POSITION, AT THE INSTIGATION OF
THE ARCHBISHOP AND FRIARS INTERESTED IN KEEPING THEM OUT OF THE WAY FOR THEIR
OWN SELFISH AND AVARICIOUS PURPOSES, DEPORTATIONS WHICH ARE QUICKLY BROUGHT
ABOUT BY A METHOD OF PROCEDURE MORE EXECRABLE THAN THAT OF THE INQUISITION
AND WHICH EVERY CIVILIZED NATION REJECTS ON ACCOUNT OF A DECISION BEING
RENDERED WITHOUT A HEARING OF THE PERSONS ACCUSED.”
 THE DOCUMENT SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED ABUSES AND
INEQUALITIES IN THE COLONY.

THE REASON BEHIND THE SABOTAGE AND INJURIES AGAINST UNJUST DEPORTATION WITHOUT
REVOLUTION AGAINST SPAIN DULY CONSTITUTED, ARBITRARY PROPER HEARING AND THE
WHICH INCLUDES THE ABUSE OF ARREST UNEQUAL PROTECTION GREED OF THE CLERGY LIKE THE
THE CIVIL GUARD ACT OF OF THE LAW FRIARS AND ARCHBISHOP
VIOLENCE, UNLAWFUL SHOOTING
OF PRISONERS
“In the town of Cavite Viejo, in this province of Cavite,
on the twelfth day of June eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, before me, Don Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista,
Auditor of War and Special Commissioner appointed to
proclaim and solemnize this act by the Dictatoriaal
Government of these Philippine Islands, for the
purposes and by virtue of the circular addressed by the
Eminent Dictator of the same Don Emilio Aguinaldo y
Famy.”
 DON EMILO AGUINALDO
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE

•“ WE ACKNOWLEDGE, APPROVE AND CONFIRM TOGETHER WITH THE

ORDERS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED THEREFROM, THE DICTATORSHIP
ESTABLISHED BY DON EMILIO AGUINALDO, WHOM WE HONOR AS THE
SUPREME CHIEF OF THIS NATION, WHICH THIS DAY COMMENCES TO
HAVE A LIFE OF ITS OWN, IN THE BELIEF THAT HE IS THE INSTRUMENT
SELECTED BY GOD, IN SPITE OF HIS HUMBLE ORIGIN, TO EFFECT THE
REDEMPTION OF THIS UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE, AS FORETOLD BY
DOCTOR JOSE RIZAL IN THE MAGNIFICENT VERSES WHICH HE
COMPOSED WHEN HE WAS PREPARING TO BE SHOT, LIBERATING THEM
FROM THE YOKE OF SPANISH DOMINATION IN PUNISHMENT OF THE
IMPUNITY WITH WHICH THEIR GOVERNMENT ALLOWED THE
COMMISSION OF ABUSES BY ITS SUBORDINATES.”
“ And finally, it was unanimously resolved that this Nation, independent from this day, must use
the same flag used heretofore, whose design and colors and described in the accompanying
drawing, with design representing in natural colors the tree arms referred to. The white triangle
represents the distinctive emblem of the famous Katipunan Society, which by means of its compact
of blood urged on the masses of the people to insurrection; the three stars represent the three
principal Islands of this Archipelago, Luzon, Mindanao, and Panay, in which this insurrectionary
movement broke out; the sun represents the gigantic strides that have been made by the sons of this
land on the road of progress and civilization, its eight rays symbolizing the eight provinces of
Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Laguna, and Batangas, which were
declared in a state of war almost as soon as the first insurrectionary movement was initiated; and
the colors blue, red, and white, commemorate those of the flag of the United States of North
America, in manifestation of our profound gratitude towards that Great Nation for the disinterested
protection she is extending to us and will continue to extend to us.”
THE EVOLUTION
OF PHILIPPINE
FLAGS
THE FIRST FILIPINO FLAG
THE FIRST PHILIPPINE
CAN BE TRACED FROM
FLAGS WAS MADE OF THE FILIPINO FLAG HAD
THE TIME OF THE 
RED CLOTH WITH WHITE VARIATIONS (FROM
ANDRES BONIFACIO'S
KKK INITIALS SEWN IN 1892 TO 1896).
SECRET SOCIETY.
WHITE.
 IN THIS PHILIPPINE FLAG
OF NOTE IS THE BLACK ANOTHER VARIATION OF PICTURE, THE SUN WITH
BANNER OF GENERAL THE FILIPINO FLAG WAS THE KKK UNDERNEATH
MARIANO LLANERA IN THAT OF GENERAL PIO WAS ALSO A DERIVATIVE
NUEVA ECIJA DEL PILAR. OF
PREVIOUS FILIPINO FLAGS.
IN 1896, THE MAGDALO
ANOTHER VARIATION GENERAL GREGORIO
FACTION OF THE KATIPUNAN
IS THE SUN OF DEL PILAR
IN CAVITE HEADED BY
LIBERTY OF THE NAIC  ALSO USED
GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO
ASSEMBLY IN 1897 ANOTHER FLAG
 IN 1936, MANUEL L. QUEZON AS
PRESIDENT OF THE
IN 1898 EMILIO AGUINALDO COMMONWEALTH,
 WHILE IN EXILE IN HONG ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER 23
KONG HAD A BANNER WHICH CONTAINED THE
SPECIFICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL
FLAG. 
 ANALYSIS OF THE
“PROCLAMATION OF THE
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE”
THE DOCUMENT ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CAN REVEAL
SOME OFTEN OVERLOOK HISTORICAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE IMPORTANT
EVENT IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

• FIAR ABUSE
• RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
• INEQUALITY
HOWEVER, NO MENTION WAS MADE ABOUT THE MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTED THE
MASSES MORE PROFOUNDLY.

• TEODORO AGONCILLO, STATED THAT THE PHILIPPINE WAS AGRARIAN REVOLUTION

• THE PROCLAMATION ALSO GIVE US THE IMPRESSION ON HOW THE VICTORIOUS
REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF AGUINALDO HISTORIZED THE STRUGGLE FOR
INDEPENDENCE.