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A unicameral National Assembly replaced the bicameral body after the 1935 Philippine Constitution was ratified. In 1941, the Constitution was amended, again restoring the bicameral legislature that came to be called the Congress of the Philippines.
But in 1940, through an amendment to the 1935 Constitution, a bicameral Congress of the Philippines consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate was created. Those elected in 1941 would not serve until 1945, as World War II erupted.
Timeline. Prehistoric period (pre-900) Precolonial period (900–1565) Spanish colonial period (1565–1898) American colonial period (1898–1946) Post-independence (1946–1965) Marcos era (1965–1986)
The 1987 Constitution established a representative democracy with power divided among three separate and independent branches of government: the Executive, a bicameral Legislature, and the Judiciary.
August 29, 1916. The US Congress passed the Jones Act, which established, among others, a bicameral congress; the newly-organized. Senate replaced the Philippine Commission.
In Philippines: Constitutional framework …a bicameral legislature, called the Congress of the Philippines, consisting of a House of Representatives (with about 290 members) and a much smaller Senate (some two dozen members).
At the height of its military successes against Spain, the revolutionary government proclaimed independence on June 12, 1898. Aguinaldo became president and the Philippine Republic was formally inaugurated in Malolos, Bulacan, in January 1899.
