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The Malolos Congress (Spanish: Congreso de Malolos) also known as the Revolutionary Congress (Spanish: Congreso de Revolucionario) [3] and formally the National Assembly, was the legislative body of the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines. Members were chosen in the elections held from June 23 to September 10, 1898. The assembly ...
A revolutionary congress was established with power "[t]o watch over the general interest of the Philippine people, and carrying out of the revolutionary laws; to discuss and vote upon said laws; to discuss and approve, prior to their ratification, treaties and loans; to examine and approve the accounts presented annually by the secretary of ...
The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines held these elections following that declaration. After the Spanish sold the Philippines to the Americans in the Treaty of Paris of 1898 , signed on December 10, 1898, the First Philippine Republic , which includes the Malolos Congress, fought the Philippine–American War against the American ...
The Allies reconquered the Philippines and the legislators elected in 1941 who are either still alive or are not arrested for collaboration convened in 1945. The Americans granted independence on July 4, 1946, and the Commonwealth Congress was renamed as Congress of the Republic of the Philippines.
The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower house of Congress. The House of Representatives has existed from 1945 to 1972, and since 1987. Whenever a bicameral system is used, a lower house has existed under the name of the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1934.
Felipe Buencamino y Siojo (August 23, 1848 – February 6, 1929) was a Filipino lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He fought alongside the Spaniards in the Philippine Revolution but later switched sides and joined Emilio Aguinaldo's revolutionary cabinet.
The First Philippine Republic was under a revolutionary government. A revolutionary government was initially established by the Katipunan with the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1896, as the Katipunan's Supreme President Andres Bonifacio reformed its Supreme Council into a "cabinet" still with himself as president.
Brigadier-General-Philippine Revolutionary Army (1898–1901) Pro-Emilio Aguinaldo- Staff member of Aguinaldo's Government; First Philippine Republic; Member of the Hong Kong Junta (Emilio Aguinaldo's Exile Government in Hong Kong) along with brother, Justo Lukban (1897) Katipunan; Labo, Camarines Norte. Tayabas Province – Governor (1913–1916)