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August 5, 1946
- On August 5, 1946, Republic Act No. 6 was approved, renaming the body as the 1st Congress of the Philippines.
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The 1st Congress of the Philippines ( Filipino: Unang Kongreso ng Pilipinas ), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from May 25, 1946, until December 13, 1949, during the 22-month presidency of Manuel Roxas and the first two years of Elpidio Quirino 's presidency.
The First Commonwealth Congress passed a total of 55 laws in five special sessions: Commonwealth Act Nos. 672 to 727. Heeding Osmeña's urgent call during the opening session of Congress, the first legislative measure it enacted was Commonwealth Act No. 672 which restored the Philippine National Bank and organized its financial capital.
Upon the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines on July 4, 1946, Republic Act No. 6 was enacted providing that on the date of the proclamation of the Republic of the Philippines, the existing Congress would be known as the First Congress of the Republic.
Except during the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic from 1942-1945, the Congress functioned as the national legislature until September 1972 when President Ferdinand E. Marcos placed the country under martial law.
The First Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines ( Filipino: Unang Kongreso ng Komenwelt ng Pilipinas ), also known as the Postwar Congress, and the Liberation Congress, refers to the meeting of the bicameral legislature composed of the Senate and House of Representatives, from 1945 to 1946.
The post-Independence Congress became the first legislature of the Republic of the Philippines. That Congress’ first members were elected during the dying days of the Commonwealth in 1946, and the last barely a year before it gave way to martial law that ushered in the dictatorship in 1973.
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. May 14, 1935. With the ratification of the 1935 Constitution, the unicameral National Assembly replaced. the bicameral legislature created by virtue. of the Jones Act.
