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- The Philippine Bill of 1902 mandated the creation of a bicameral or a two-chamber Philippine Legislature with the Philippine Commission as the Upper House and the Philippine Assembly as the Lower House. This bicameral legislature was inaugurated in 1907.
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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.
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- 340 (see list), 24 senators, 316 representatives
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.
The National Assembly amended the 1935 Constitution and re-established a bicameral congress. January 15, 1973. Upon the ratification of the 1973 Constitution, the unicameral Batasang Pambansa was once again instituted. February 2, 1987.
government of the Philippines 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).
If the House-approved version is compatible with that of the Senate’s, the final version’s enrolled form is printed. If there are certain differences, a Bicameral Conference Committee is called to reconcile conflicting provisions of both versions of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.
It was amended in 1940 to have a bicameral Congress composed of a Senate and House of Representatives, to create an independent electoral commission and to grant the President a four-year term with a maximum of two consecutive terms in office.
Philippine independence was eventually achieved on July 4, 1946. The 1935 Constitution, which featured a political system virtually identical to the American one, became operative. The system called for a President to be elected at large for a 4-year term (subject to one re-election), a bicameral Congress, and an independent Judiciary.
