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Preamble
We, the Representatives of the Filipino people, lawfully covened, in
order
to establish justice, provide for common defense, promote the general
welfare,
and insure the benefits of liberty, imploring the aidof
the Sovereign Legislator of the Universe for the attainment of these
ends,
have voted, decreed, and sanctioned the following:
POLITICAL
CONSTITUTIONTitle
ITHE
REPUBLIC
Article 1. The political association of all Filipinos constitutes a
nation,
whose state shall be known as the Philippine Republic.
Article 2. The Philippine Republic is free and independent.
Article 3. Sovereignty resides exclusively in the people.
Title
IITHE
GOVERNMENT
Article 4. The Government of the Republic is popular, representative,
alternative,
and responsible, and shall exercise three distinct powers: namely, the
legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Any two ormore
of these three powers shall never be united in one person or
cooperation,
nor the legislative power vested in one single individual.
Title
IIIRELIGION
Article
5. The State recognizes the freedom and equality of all religions, as
well
as the separation of the Church and the State.
Title
IVTHE
FILIPINOS AND THEIR NATIONALAND
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Article
6. The following are Filipinos:
1. All persons born in the Philippine territory. A vessel of
Philippine
registry is considered, for this purpose, as part of Philippine
territory.
2. Children of a Filipino father or mother, although born outside
of the Philippines.
3. Foreigners who have obtained certification of naturalization.
4. Those who, without such certificate, have acquired a domicile
in any town within Philippine territory.
It is understood that domicile is acquired by uninterrupted residence
for
two years in any locality within Philippine territory, with an open
abode
and known occupation, and contributing to all the taxes imposed by the
Nation.
The condition of being a Filipino is lost in accordance with law.
Article 7. No Filipino or foreigner shall be detained nor imprisoned
except
for the commission of a crime and in accordance with law.
Article 8. All persons detained shall be discharged or delivered to the
judicial authority within 24 hours following the act of
detention.
All detentions shall be without legal effect, unless the arrested
person
is duly prosecuted within 72 hours after delivery to a competent
court.
The accused shall be duly notified of such proceeding within the same
period.
Article 9. No Filipino shall be imprisoned except by virtue of an order
by a competent court. The order of imprisonment shall be ratified
or confirmed within 72 hours following the said order, after the
accused
has been heard.
Article 10. No one shall enter the dwelling house of any Filipino or a
foreigner residing in the Philippines without his consent except in
urgent
cases of fire, inundation, earthquake or similar dangers, or by reason
of unlawful aggression from within, or in order to assist a person
therein
who cries for help. Outside of these cases, the entry into the
dwelling
house of any Filipino or foreign resident in the Philippines or the
search
of his papers and effects can only be decreed by a competent court andexecuted
only in the daytime. The search of papers and effects shall be
made
always in the presence of the person searched or of a member of his
family
and, in their absence, of two witnesses resident of the same
place.
However, when a criminal caught in fraganti should take refuge in his
dwelling
house, the authorities in pursuit may enter into it, only for the
purpose
of making an arrest. If a criminal should take refuge in the
dwelling
house of a foreigner, the consent of a latter must first be obtained.
Article 11. No Filipino shall be compelled to change his residence or
domicile
except by virtue of a final judgment.
Article 12. In no case may correspondence confided to the post office
be
detained or opened by government authorities, nor any telegraphic or
telephonic
message detained. However, by virtue of a competent court,
correspondence
may be detained and opened in the presence of the sender.
Article 13. All orders of imprisonment, of search of a dwelling house,
or detention of written correspondence, telegraph or telephone, must be
justified. When an order lacks this requisite, or when the
grounds
on which the act was founded is proven in court to be unlawful or
manifestly
insufficient, the person to be detained or whose imprisonment hasnot
been ratified within the period prescribed in Art. 9, or whose
correspondence
has been detained, shall have the right to recover damages.
Article 14. No Filipino shall be prosecuted or sentenced, except by a
judge
or court of proper jurisdiction and according to the procedure
prescribed
by law.
Article 15. Exept in the cases provided by the Constitution, all
persons
detained or imprisoned not in accordance with legal formalities shall
be
released upon his own petition or upon petition of anotherperson.
The law shall determine the manner of proceeding summarily in this
instance,
as well as the personal and pecuniary penalties which shall be imposed
upon the person who ordered, executed or to beexecuted
the illegal detention or imprisonment.
Article 16. No one shall be temporarily or permanently deprived of
rights
or dstured in his enjoyment thereof, except by virtue of judicial
sentence.
The officials who, under any pretext whatsoever, should violate this
provision,
shall be personally liable for the damages caused.
Article 17. No one shall be deprived of his property by expropriation
except
on grounds of public necessity and benefit, previously declared and
justified
by proper authorities, and indemnifying the owner thereof prior to
expropriation.
Article 18. No one shall be obliged to pay any public tax which had not
been approved by the National Assembly or by local popular governments
legally so authorized, and which is not in the mannerprescribed
by the law.
Article 19. No Filipino who is in full enjoyment of his civil or
political
rights, shall be impeded in the free exercise of said rights.
Article 20. Neither shall any Filipino be deprived:
1. Of the right to freely express his ideas or opinions, orally
or
in writing, through the use of the press or other similar means.
2. Of the right of association for purposes of human life and
which
are not contrary to public morals; and lastly
3. Of the right to send petitions to the authorities,
individually
or collectively.
The right of petition shall not be exercised through any kind of armed
force.
Article 21. The exercise of the rights provided for in the preceding
article
shall be subject to general provisions regulating the same.
Article 22. Crimes committed on the occasion of the exercise of rights
provided for in this title, shall be punished by the courts in
accordance
with the laws.
Article 23. Any Filipino may establish and maintain institutions of
learning,
in accordance with the laws authorizing them. Public education
shall
be free and obligatory in all schools of the nation.
Article 24. Foreigners may freely reside in Philippine territory,
subject
to legal dispositions regulating the matter; may engage in any
occupation
or profession for the exercise of which no special license is required
by law to be issued by the national authorities.
Article 25. No Filipino who is in full enjoyment of his political and
civil
rights shall be impeded in his right to travel freely abroad or in his
right to transfer his residence or possessions to another country,except
as to his obligations to contribute to military service or the
maintenance
of public taxes.
Article 26. No foreigner who has not been naturalized may exercise in
the
Philippines any office which carries with it any authority or
jurisdictional
powers.
Article 27. All Filipinos are obliged to defend his country with arms
when
called upon by law, and to contribute to the expenses of the State in
proportion
to his means.
Article 28. The enumeration of the rights provided for in this title
does
not imply the denial of other rights not mentioned.
Article 29. The prior authorization to prosecute a public official in
the
ordinary courts is not necessary, whatever may be the crime committed.
A
superior order shall not exempt a public official from liability in the
cases which constitute apparent and clear violations of constitutional
precepts. In others, the agents of the law shall only be exemptedif
they did not exercise the authority.
Article 30. The guarantees provided for in Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 20 shall not be suspended, partially
or wholly, in any part of the Republic, except temporarily and byauthority
of law, when the security of the State in extraordinary circumstances
so
demands.
When promulgated in any territory where the suspension applies, there
shall
be a special law which shall govern during the period of the
suspension,
according to the circumstances prevailing.
The law of suspension as well as the special law to govern shall be
approved
by the National Assembly, and in case the latter is in recess, the
Government
shall have the power to decree the same jointly with the Permanent
Commission,
without prejudice to convoking the Assembly without the least delay and
report to it what had been done.
However,
any suspension made shall not affect more rights than those mentioned
in
the first paragraph of this article nor authorize the Government to
banish
or deport from the Philippines any Filipino.
Article 31. In the Republic of the Philippines, no one shall be judged
by a special law nor by special tribunals. No person or corporation may
enjoy privileges or emoluments which are not in compensation for public
service rendered and authorized by law. War and marine laws shall apply
only
for crimes and delicts which have intimate relation to military or
naval
discipline.
Article 32. No Filipino shall establish laws on primogeniture, nor
institutions
restrictive of property rights, nor accept honors, decorations, or
honorific
titles or nobility from foreign nations without the
consent
of the Government.
Neither shall the Government establish in the Republic institutions
mentioned
in the preceding paragraph, nor confer honors, decorations, or
honorific
titles of nobility to any Filipino.
The Nation, however, may reward by special law approved by the
Assembly,
conspicuous services rendered by citizens of the country.
Title
VTHE
LEGISLATIVE POWER
Article 33. Legislative power shall be exercised by an Assembly of
Representatives
of the Nation.
This Assembly shall be organized in the form and manner determined by
law.
Article 34. The Members of the Assembly shall represent the who nation
and not exclusively the electors who elected them.
Article 35. No representative shall receive from his electors any
imperative
mandate whatsoever.
Article 36. The Assembly shall meet every year. The President of the
Republic
has the right to convoke it, suspend and close its sessions, and
dissolve
the same, within the periods prescribed by law enacted by the Assembly
or by the Permanent Commission.
Article 37. The Assembly shall be open at least three months each year,
without including in this period the time spent in its organization.
The President of the Republic shall convoke the Assembly, not later
than
the 15th day of April.
Article 38. In extraordinary cases, he may convoke the Assembly outside
of the period fixed by law, as determined by the Permanent Commission,
and prolong its law-making, provided the extendedperiod
does not exceed one month and provided further that such extensions do
not take place more than twice during the same legislative term.
Article 39. The National Assembly, jointly with the special
Representatives,
shall organize committees for the organization of the Assembly and for
the election of the new President of the Republic, which shall be
formed
at least one month before the expiration of the term of office of the
Representatives.
In case of death or resignation of the President of the Republic, the
Assembly
shall meet in session by its own right or by initiative of the
President
or of the Permanent Commission.
Article 40. In the meantime that the new President has not been chosen,
his functions shall be exercised by the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court
whose office shall be taken over by one of theJustices
of the Court, in accordance with law.
Article 41. Any session of the Assembly held outside the period of
ordinary
legislature shall be unlawful and void. The case provided in Article 30
and in which the Assembly has constituted itself intoa
Tribunal of Justice shall be excepted, but in the latter case no other
functions shall be exercised except that pertaining to judicial
functions.
Article 42. The sessions of the Assembly shall be public. However,
sessions
may be held in secret upon petition of a certain number of its members
fixed by the Rules, deciding afterwards by an absolute majority of
votes
of the members present if the discussion on the same subject has to
continue
in public.
Article 43. The President of the Republic shall communicate with the
Assembly
by means of messages, which shall be read by a Department Secretary.
The Department Secretaries shall have the right to be heard in the
Assembly,
upon their request, and they may be represented in the discussion of
certain
bills by Commissioners appointed by decrees of
the
President of the Republic.
Article 44. The Assembly may constitute itself into a Tribunal of
Justice
to hear and determine crimes committed against the security of the
State
by the President of the Republic and members of theCouncil
of Government, by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and by the
Solicitor
General of the Nation, by means of a decree promulgating it, or by the
Permanent Commission, or by the Presidentof
the Republic upon petition of the Solicitor General or Council of
Government.
The law shall determine the mode and manner of the accusation,
instruction,
and disposition of the proceedings.
Article 45. No member of the Assembly shall be prosecuted nor held
accountable
for the opinions expressed by him, nor by the vote taken by him in the
discharge of his office.
Article 46. No member of the Assembly shall be prosecuted criminally
without
authority of the Assembly or of the Permanent Commission to which an
immediate
report of the facts shall be made, for its proper action.
The imprisonment, detention, or apprehension of a member of the
Assembly
shall not be carried out without the prior authority of the same or by
the Permanent Commission. The moment the Assembly isnotified
of the order of imprisonment, it shall incur liability if, within two
days
following the notification, it does not authorize the imprisonment or
give
sufficient reason upon which the refusal is based.
Article 47. The National Assembly shall have the following additional
powers:
1. To approve Rules for its internal government.
2. To examine the legality of the elections and the legal
qualifications
of the elected members.
3. To elect its President, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries.
Until the Assembly has been dissolved, the President, Vice-Presidents,
and Secretaries shall continue to exercise their office for the period
of four legislative terms; and
4. To accept the resignations of its members and grant privileges
in accordance with the Rules.
Article 48. No bill shall become law without having been voted on by
the
Assembly. To approve a bill, the presence in the Assembly of at
least
one-fourth of the total number of the members whose elections have been
duly approved and taken the oath of office shall be necessary.
Article 49. No bill shall be approved by the Assembly until after it
has
been voted upon as a whole and subsequently article by article.
Article 50. The Assembly shall have the right of censure, and each of
the
members the right of interpellation.
Article 51. The initiative in the presentation of bills belongs to the
President of the Republic and to the Assembly.
Article 52. Any member of the Assembly who accepts from the Government
any pension, employment, or office with salary, is understood to have
renounced
his membership. From this shall be excepted the employment as
Secretary
of the Government of the Republic and other offices provided for by
special
laws.
Article 53. The office of Representatives shall be for a term of four
years,
and shall be compensated by a sum fixed by law, according to the
circumstances.
Those who absent themselves during the entire period of the legislative
sessions shall not be entitled to any compensation; but they may be
allowed
to recover the right to compensation should they attend
subsequently.
Title
VITHE
PERMANENT COMMISSION
Article 54. The Assembly, before adjournment, shall elect seven of its
members to form the Permanent Commission during the period of
adjournment,
which shall designate at its first session, the Presidentand
the Secretary.
Article 55. The Permanent Commission, during the adjournment of the
Assembly,
shall have the following attributes:
1. Declare if there is sufficient cause to proceed against the
President
of the Republic, the Representatives, Department secretaries, the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Solicitor-General in the cases
provided
by this Constitution.
2. Convoke the Assembly to a special session in the cases where
the
latter should constitute itself into a Tribunal of Justice.
3. To act upon pending matters which require proper action.
4. Convoke the Assembly in special sessions when the exigencies
of
the situation so demand.
5. Supplement the powers of the Assembly in accordance with the
Constitution,
excepting the act of voting and approving laws.
The
Permanent Commission shall meet in session whenever convoked by the
presiding
officer, in accordance with this Constitution.
Title
VIITHE
EXECUTIVE POWER
Article 56. The Executive Power shall be vested in the President of the
Republic, who shall exercise it through his Department Secretaries.
Article 57. The administration of the particular interests of towns,
provinces,
and of the State shall correspond, respectively, to the Popular
Assembles,
the Provincial Assemblies, and to the Administration in power, in
accordance
with the laws, and observing the most liberal policy of
decentralization
and administrative autonomy.
Title
VIIITHE
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
Article 58. The President of the Republic shall be elected by absolute
majority of votes by the Assembly and by the special Representatives,
convened
in chamber assembles. His term of office shall be four years, and
may be reelected.
Article 59. The President of the Republic shall have the right to
initiate
the introduction of bills equally with the members of the Assembly, and
promulgate the laws when duly voted and approved by the latter, and
shall
see to it that the same are duly executed.
Article 60. The power to execute the laws shall extend to all cases
conducive
to the preservation of internal public order and to the external
security
of the State.
Article 61. The President shall promulgate the laws duly approved by
him
within 20 days following their transmittal to him by the Assembly.
Article 62. If within this period, the President should fail to
promulgate
them, he shall return them to the Assembly with his reasons for the
return,
in which case the Assembly may reconsider same, and itshall
be presumed by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the
Assembly
present in a quorum. If repassed in the manner indicated, the
Government
shall promulgate same within ten days, with a manifestation of its
non-conformity.
The obligation is imposed upon the Government if it allows twenty days
to elapse without returning the bill to the Assembly.
Article 63. When the promulgation of a law has been declared urgent by
express will of an absolute majority of votes of the Assembly, the
President
of the Republic may require the Assembly to re-approve same which
cannot
be refused, and if the same bill is repassed, the President shall
promulgate
it within the legal period, without prejudice to his making of record
his
non-conformity with the bill.
Article 64. The promulgation of laws shall be made by publishing them
in
the official gazette of the Republic, and shall have the force of law
thirty
days following such publication.
Article 65. The President of the Republic shall have at his disposal
the
army and the navy, and may declare war and make and ratify treaties
with
the prior consent of the Assembly.
Article 66. Treaties of peace shall not take effect until voted upon by
the Assembly.
Article 67. The President of the Republic, in addition to his duty to
execute
the laws, shall:
1. Supervise civil and military employees in accordance with the
laws.
2. Appoint the Secretaries of the Government.
3. Direct the diplomatic and commercial relations with foreign
powers.
4. See to it that justice is duly and promptly administered
throughout
the Philippines.
5. Grant pardon to convicted criminals in accordance with the
laws,
except any special provision relating to the Secretaries of the
Government.
6. Preside over all national functions and receive ambassadors
and
accredited representatives of foreign powers.
Article 68. The President of the Republic may be authorized by special
law:
1. To alienate, transfer or exchange any portion of Philippine
territory.
2. To incorporate any other territory to the Philippine territory.
3. To admit the stationing of foreign troops in Philippine
territory.
4. To ratify of alliance, defensive as well as offensive, special
treaties of commerce, those which stipulate to grant subsidies to a
foreign
power, and those which may compel Filipinos to render personal service.
Secret treaties in no case may prevail over the provisions of open
treaties
or treaties made publicly.
5. To grant general amnesties and pardons.
6. To coin money.
Article 69. To the President belongs the power to issue regulations for
the compliance and application of the laws in accordance with the
requisites
prescribed in said laws.
Article 70. The President of the Philippines, with the prior approval
by
majority vote of the Representatives, may dissolve the Assembly before
the expiration of its legislation term. In this case, new
elections
shall be called within three months.
Article 71. The President of the Republic may be held liable only for
cases
of high treason.
Article 72. The salary of the President of the Republic shall be fixed
by special law which may not be changed except after the presidential
term
has expired.
Title
IXTHE
SECRETARIES OF GOVERNMENTArticle 73. The Council of Government is composed of one President and
seven secretaries, each of whom shall have under his charge the
portfolios
of Foreign Relations, Interior, Finance, War and
Marine,
Public Education, Communications and Public Works, and Agriculture,
Industry,
and Commerce.
Article 74. All the acts done by the President of the Republic in the
discharge
of his duties shall be signed by the corresponding Secretary. No public
official shall give official recognition to any act unless this
requisite
is complied with.
Article 75. The Secretaries of Government are jointly responsible to
the
Assembly for the general administration of the Government, and
individually
for their respective personal acts.
Article 76. In order to exempt them from responsibility, when held
guilty
by the Assembly, a petition to this effect approved by absolute
majority
of the Representatives is necessary.
Title
XTHE
JUDICIAL POWER
Article 77. To the Court corresponds exclusively the power to
apply
the laws, in the name of the Nation, in all civil and criminal trials.The
same codes of laws shall be applied throughout the Republic, without
prejudice
to certain variations according to circumstances as determined by
law.
In all trials, civil, criminal, and administrative, all citizens shall
be governed by one code of laws and procedure.
Article 78. The courts of justice shall not apply general local
regulations,
except when they conform to the laws.
Article 79. The exercise of judicial power shall be vested in one
Supreme
Court and in other courts established by law. Their composition,
organization, and other attributes shall be determined by the laws
creating
them.
Article 80. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the
Solicitor-General
shall be chosen by the National Assembly in concurrence with the
President
of the Republic and the Secretaries of the
Government,
and shall be absolutely independent of the Legislative and Executive
Powers.
Article 81. Any citizen may file suit against any member exercising the
Judicial Power for any crime committed by them in the discharge of
their
office.
Title
XIPROVINCIAL
AND POPULAR ASSEMBLIES
Article 82. The organization and attributes of provincial and popular
assemblies
shall be governed by their respective laws. These laws shall
conform
to the following principles:
1. The government and management of the particular interests of
the
province or town shall be discharged by their respective corporations,
the principle of direct and popular elections being the basis
underlying
each of them.
2. Publicity of their sessions, within the limits provided by law.
3. Publication of all appropriations, accounts, and agreements
affecting
same.
4. Government interference and, in the absence thereof, by the
National
Assembly, to prevent provinces and municipalities exceeding their
powers
and attributes to the prejudice of the interest of individuals and of
the
Nation at large.
5. Power of taxation shall be exercised to the end that
provincial
and municipal taxation do not come into conflict with the power of
taxation
of the State.
Title
XIIADMINISTRATION
OF THE STATE
Article 83. The Government shall submit every year to the Assembly a
budget
of expenditures and income, indicating the changes made from those of
the
preceding year, accompanying the same with a balance sheet as of the
end
of the year, in accordance with law. This budget shall be
submitted
to the Assembly within ten days following the commencement of its
session.
Article 85. The Government, in order to dispose of the property and
effects
of the State, and to borrow money secured by mortgage or credit of the
Nation, must be authorized by special law.
Article 86. Public debts contracted by the Government of the Republic,
in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, shall be under
the special guarantee of the Nation.
No debt shall be contracted unless the means of paying the same are
voted
upon.
Article 87. All laws relating to income, public expenses, or public
credits
shall be considered as part of the appropriation and shall be published
as such.
Article 88. The Assembly shall determine every year, upon the
recommendation
of the President of the Republic, the military forces by land and sea.
Title
XIIIAMENDMENT
OF THE CONSTITUTION
Article 89. The Assembly, on its own initiative or that of the
President
of the Republic, may propose amendments to the Constitution, indicating
what article or articles are to be amended.
Article 90. This proposal having been made, the President of the
Republic
shall dissolve the Assembly, and shall convoke a Constituent Assembly
which
shall meet within three months. In the decree convoking the Constituent
Assembly, the resolution mentioned in the preceding article shall be
inserted. Title
XIVCONSTITUTIONAL
OBSERVANCE,OATH,
AND LANGUAGE
Article 91. The President of the Republic, the Government, the
Assembly,
and all Filipino citizens shall faithfully observe the provisions of
the
Constitution; and the Legislative Power, upon approval of theAppropriations
Act, shall examine if the Constitution has been strictly complied with
and whether violations, if any, have been duly corrected and those
responsible
for the violations held liable.
Article 92. The President of the Republic and all other officials of
the
Nation shall not enter into the discharge of their office without
having
taken the prescribed oath. The oath of the President of the Republic
shall
be taken before the National Assembly.
The other officials of the Nation shall take their oath before the
authorities
determined by law.
Article 93. The use of languages spoken in the Philippines shall be
optional.
Their use cannot be regulated except by virtue of law, and solely for
acts
of public authority and in the courts. For these
acts
the Spanish language may be used in the meantime.
TRANSITORY
PROVISIONS
Article 94. Meanwhile and without prejudice to the provisions of
Article
48 and to the acts of the commissions designated by the Assembly to
translate
and submit to the same the organic laws in the development and
application
of the rights granted to Filipino citizens and for the government of
public
powers therein mentioned, the laws of the Republic shall be considered
those found existing in these islands before the emancipation of the
same.
The provisions of the Civil Code relating to marriage and civil
registry,
suspended by the Governor General of these islands; the Instructions of
April 26, 1888 to carry into effect Articles 77, 78, 79, and 82 of said
Code; the law on civil registry of June 17, 1870 which refers to
Article
332 of the same, and the Regulation of December 13 following for the
enforcement
of this law, without prejudice to the Chiefs of towns continuing to be
in charge of inscriptions in the civil registry and intervening in the
celebration of marriage between Catholics, shall also be deemed in
force
and effect.
Article 95. In the meantime that the laws referred to in the preceding
article have not been approved or enforced, the Spanish laws which said
article allows to be enforced provisionally may be amended byspecial
law.
Article 96. Once the laws approved by the Assembly have been
promulgated
in accordance with Article 94, the Government of the Republic shall
have
the power to issue decrees and regulationsnecessary
for the immediate organization of the various organs of the State.
Article 97. The present President of the Revolutionary Government shall
assume later the title of President of the Republic and shall discharge
the duties of this office until the Assembly when convoked proceeds to
the election of one who shall definitely exercise the duties of the
office.
Article 98. The present Congress, composed of members by suffrage or by
decree, shall last for four years, or for the duration of the present
legislative
term commencing on the 15th of April of next year.
Article 99. Notwithstanding the general rule established in part 2 of
Article
4, in the meantime that the country is fighting for its independence,
the
Government is empowered to resolve during the closure of the Congress
all
questions and difficulties not provided for in the laws, which give
rise
to unforeseen events, of which the Permanent Commission shall be duly
apprised
as well as the Assembly when itmeets
in accordance with this Constitution.
Article 100. The execution of Article 5, Title III shall be suspended
until
the constituent Assembly meets in session.
In the meantime, municipalities which require spiritual ministry of a
Filipino
priest may provide for his necessary maintenance.
Article 101. Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 62 and 63,
bills
returned by the President of the Republic to the Congress may not be
repassed
except in the legislature of the following year, thissuspension
being under the responsibility of the President and his Council of
Government.
When these conditions have been fulfilled, the promulgation of said
laws
shall be obligatory within ten days,without
prejudice to the President making of record his non-conformity.
If
the reapproval is made in subsequent legislative terms, it shall be
deemed
law approved for the first time.
ADDITIONAL
ARTICLE
All the estates, edifices, and other property possessed by the religiouscorporations
in these islands shall be deemed restored to the Philippine State as of
May 24, 1898 when the Dictatorial Government has been constituted in
Cavite.
BARASOAIN, the twentieth of January, 1899.
The
President of the Congress
PEDRO
A. PATERNO
The
Secretaries
PABLO
TECSON
PABLO
OCAMPO
Aguedo
Velarde
Alberto
Barretto
Ambrosio
Rianzares Bautista
Antonio
Luna
Antonio
Feliciano
Arcadio
del Rosario
Ariston
Bautista
Ariston
Gella
Arsenio
Cruz-Herrera
Basilio
Teodoro
Benito
Legarda
Ceferino
de Leon
Domingo
Samson
Esteban
de la Rama
Felipe
Buencamino
Felipe
Calderon
Felix
Bautista
Felix
Ferrer Pascual
Fernando
Cañon
Graciano
Cordero
Gregorio
Aguilera
Gregorio
Aglipay
Higinio
Benitez
Hipolito
Magsalin
Hugo
Ilagan
Ignacio
Villamor
Isidro
Torres
Isidro
Paredes
Javier
Gonzales Salvador
Joaquin
Gonzales
Joaquin
Luna
Jose
Basa
Jose
Salamanca
Jose
R. Infante
Jose
F. Oliveros
Jose
Tuason
Jose
Santiago
Jose
M. de la Vina
Jose
M. Lerma
Jose
Albert
Jose
Coronel
Jose
Alejandrino
Jose
Fernandez
Jose
Luna
Juan
Nepomuceno
Juan
Manday
Juan
Tuason
Justo
Lucban
Leon
Apacible
Leon
Guerrero
Lorenzo
del Rosario
Lucas
Gonzales Maninang
Manuel
Xerex Burgos
Manuel
Gomez Martinez
Manuel
Calleja
Marciano
V. del Rosario
Mariano
Abella
Mariano
Lopez
Mariano
Crisostomo
Martin
Garcia
Mateo
Gutierrez Ubaldo
Mateo
del Rosario
Melecio
Figueroa
Mena
Crisologo
Miguel
Zaragoza
Narciso
Hidalgo Resurreccion
Pablo
Ocampo
Pablo
Tecson Roque
Patricio
Bailon
Pedro
A. Paterno
Perfecto
Gabriel
Pio
del Pilar
Raymundo
Alindada
Ricardo
Paras
Salvador
V. del Rosario
Santiago
Barcelona
Santiago
Icasiano
Sebastian
de Castro
Simplicio
del Rosario
Sofio
Alandi
Sotero
Laurel
Telesforo
Chuidian
Teodoro
Sandico
Teodoro
Gonzales
Tomas
Arejola
Tomas
G. del Rosario
Trinidad
H. Pardo de Tavera
Vicente
Foz
Vicente
Guzman Pagulayan
Vicente
Somoza
Vito
Belarmino
Presidency
of the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines.D.
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, President of the Revolutionary Government of
the
Philippines and Captain General and Commander-in-Chief of its Army.
Know
all Filipino citizens: That the Assembly of Representatives of the
nation,
by virtue of its sovereign power, has decreed and I have sanctioned the
political Constitution of the state.
Therefore:
I
command all the authorities, civil as well as military, of whatever
class
or rank, to keep it and cause it to be kept, complied with and executed
in all its parts, because it is the sovereign will of the Filipino
people.
Done
at Malolos, on the twenty-first of January in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine.
EMILIO AGUINALDO |