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 SALIENT
FEATURES OF THE
CONSTITUTION:
Ingredients ala 1935,
1973, 1987
MAIN COURSE 1: 1935 CONSTITUTION
HISTORY:(OF THE DISH)
• 1916
US passed the Jones Act
• 1934
US approved a 10-year
transition plan
• 1935
Drafted a new Constitution
 SALIENT FEATURES
• It became the legal basis of the
Commonwealth Government.
• It enumerated the composition,
separation of powers, and duties of
the branches of the government
• It adopted the Regalian Doctrine of
the Principle of State ownership for
its natural wealth utilized by every
citizens.
• It had created the General Auditing
Office.
• It had followed a unicameral
system of government.
• It gives the president the powers.
MAIN COURSE 2: 1973 CONSTITUTION
HISTORY:(OF THE DISH)
Marcos, with the presence
of the Constitutional
Convention, amended the
1935 Constitution into 1973
Constitution
Declared Martial law
 SALIENT FEATURES
• (a) The content of the Constitution
is comprised of a preamble in
contrast to the 1935 Constitution,
and 17 articles especially on duties
of the netizens.
• (b) It is the first time in history to
have a parliamentary system of
government.
• (c) Legislative powers are also
given to the President
• (d) There is an emphasis of the
duties and obligations of the
citizens
• (e) The Constitution depicts an
autocratic leadership to maintain
and improve the discipline of every
individual person.
MAIN COURSE 3: 1987 CONSTITUTION
HISTORY:(OF THE DISH)
President Corazon Aquino
in April 1986 created,
through Proclamation No. 9,
the 1986 Constitutional
Commission, which was
responsible for drafting a
replacement for the 1973
Constitution.
 SALIENT FEATURES
• (a) It has supplanted the
"Freedom Constitution" upon its
ratification in 1987.
• (b) It has declared a National
Policy
• (c) It has adopted some
provisions of the 1973
Constitution
• (d)It granted the President
broad powers to reorganise
government
• (e) It has been a document truly
reflective of the ideals and
aspirations of the Filipino
people.
• (f)Legislative enactments again
has rested in the Congress.
• (g) The Republic form of
government by virtue of the
1987 Constitution was the same
type of republican government
 conclusion

Our Constitutional Law provides our freedom,

rights as individual persons, fundamental laws
and principles which safeguard, protect, and lead
our country into a better place of comfort, and
most especially the respect we needed in our
religion practiced by diverse communities.
 comparison
1935 CONSTITUTION 1973 CONSTITUTION 1987 CONSTITUTION

Preamble
Preamble Preamble
The Filipino people,
We, the sovereign Filipino We, the sovereign Filipino
imploring the aid of Divine people, imploring the aid of
people, imploring the aid of
Providence, in order to Almighty God, in order to build
Divine Providence, in order
establish a government that a just and humane society and
to establish a government
shall embody their ideals, establish a Government that
that shall embody our shall embody our ideals and
conserve and develop the
ideals, promote the general aspirations, promote the
patrimony of the nation,
welfare, conserve and common good, conserve and
promote the general
develop the patrimony of develop our patrimony, and
welfare, and secure to
our Nation, and secure to secure to ourselves and our
themselves and their posterity the blessings of
ourselves and our posterity
posterity the blessings of independence and democracy
the blessings of democracy
independence under a under the rule of law and a
under a regime of justice,
regime of justice, liberty, regime of truth, justice,
peace, liberty, and equality, freedom, love, equality, and
and democracy, do ordain
do ordain and promulgate peace, do ordain and
and promulgate this
this Constitution. promulgate this Constitution.
Constitution.

1935 CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
The National Territory
Section 1. The Philippines comprises
all the territory ceded to the United
States by the Treaty of Paris concluded
between the United States and Spain
on the tenth day of December,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
the limits which are set forth in Article
III of said treaty, together with all the
islands embraced in the treaty
concluded at Washington between
the United States and Spain on the
seventh day of November, nineteen
hundred, and the treaty concluded
between the United States and Great
Britain on the second day of January,
nineteen hundred and thirty, and all
territory over which the present
Government of the Philippine Islands
exercises jurisdiction.
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1973 CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
The National Territory
Section 1. The national territory
comprises the Philippine
archipelago, with all the islands and
waters embraced therein, and all
the other territories belonging to
the Philippines by historic or legal
title, including the territorial sea,
the air space, the subsoil, the sea-
bed, the insular shelves, and the
submarine areas over which the
Philippines has sovereignty or
jurisdiction. The waters around,
between, and connecting the
islands of the archipelago,
irrespective of their breadth and
dimensions, form part of the
internal waters of the Philippines.
1987 CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
The National Territory
The national territory comprises the
Philippine archipelago, with all the
islands and waters embraced
therein, and all other territories
over which the Philippines has
sovereignty or jurisdiction,
consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial,
and aerial domains, including its
territorial sea, the seabed, the
subsoil, the insular shelves, and
other submarine areas. The waters
around, between, and connecting
the islands of the archipelago,
regardless of their breadth and
dimensions, form part of the
internal waters of the Philippines.
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