Commonwealth

Commonwealth

1993 

       The United States Congress passed

 Hare-Hawes Cutting Act as a Philippine

 Independence Act was passed over 

President Herbert Hoover’s veto.

President Manuel L. Quezon 

    The Philippine legislature rejected the bill under his influence.

1934 

       Tydings-McDuffie Act was finally passed.

Tydings-McDuffie Act 

 Provided for the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines with a ten-year period of peaceful transition to full independence.

March 1935 
   A constitution was framed and approved by Franklin D. Roosevelt.


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May 14, 1935 

         A Filipino government was formed on the basis of principles similar to the U.S. Constitution.

Commonwealth 

      Established in 1935, electing Manuel L. Quezon as the president and featuring a very strong executive, a unicameral National Assembly, and a Supreme Court composed entirely of Filipinos for the first time since 1901.