Malolos Constitution
In accordance with the decrees of June 18 and 23, 1898, Aguinaldo convoked the Revolutionary Congress at Barasoain, Malolos. Peace and order conditions in some provinces were such that Aguinaldo was compelled to appoint their delegates to Congress. Consequently, on September 4, he appointed fifty delegates to the Congress. This number was increased by ten on September 10. The number of delegates to the Congress fluctuated from time to time.
The first significant act of the Congress was the ratification on September 29, of the independence proclaimed at Kawit on June 12, 1898.
A committee to draft the constitution was created with Felipe G. Calderon as its most prominent member. Having set Mabini's Constitutional Program aside, the committee under the influence of Calderon, also set aside, but in a subtle manner, Paterno's constitutional plan, which smelled strongly of the Spanish Constitution of 1869. With the advise of Cayetano Arellano, a brilliant but unreconstructed mestizo, Calderon drew up his plans for a constitution, deriving inspiration from the constitutions of Mexico, Belgium, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Brazil and France. In the session of Oct 8, Calderon presented the draft of this constitution.
BARASOAIN, the twentieth of January, 1899.
The President of the Congress
PEDRO A. PATERNO
The Vice-President
Benito Legarda
The Secretaries
PABLO TECSON
PABLO OCAMPO
President of the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines.
Captain General and Commander-in-Chief of its Army
D. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
Table of Titles
- The Republic
- The Government
- Religion
- The Filipinos and Their National and Individual Rights
- The Legislative Power
- The Permanent Commission
- The Executive Power
- The President of the Republic
- The Secretaries of Government
- The Judicial Power
- Provincial and Popular Assemblies
- Administration of the State
- Amendment of the Constitution
- Constitutional Observance, Oath, and Language
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