THE MALOLOS CONSTITUTION
(1899 to 1901)
The Political Constitution
of 1899
The start
About
- the first Philippine Constitution
-the first republican constitution in Asia
-lasted from 1899 to 1901
-the draft started with Felipe Calderon as the main author
-approved by the congress
-promulgated by Aguinaldo
Timeline
Influenced by
- Spanish Constitutions of 1812
- the charters of Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala
- the French Constitution of 1793
Prior constitutional projects in the Philippines;
- Kartilya and the Sanggunian-Hukuman
- the charter of laws and morals of the Katipunan written by Emilio Jacinto in 1896
- the Biak-na-Bato Costitution of 1897 planned by Isabelo Artacho
- Mabini’s Constitutional Program of the Philippine republic of 1898
- the provisional constitutional of Mariano Ponce in 1898 that followed the Spanish constitutions
- the autonomy projects of Paterno in 1898.