Documents Of The 1898 Declaration Of Philippine Independence

Philippine Declaration of Independence

• In 1896, the Philippine Revolution began. In December 1897, the Spanish government and the revolutionaries signed a truce, the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, requiring that the Spanish pay the revolutionaries 800,000 pesos and that Aguinaldo and other leaders go into exile in Hong Kong.

-The ancestral home of Emilio Aguinaldo -June 12, 1898

Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and Delfina Herboza

-Marcha Filipina Magdalo -composed by Julián Felipe and played by the San Francisco de Malabon marching band

Ambrosio Rianzares

Malolos Constitution

Written by Felipe Calderon and aided by Cayetano Arellano

ratification and proclamation held at Barasoain Church in Malolos

• inspired by the constitutions of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Belgium and France. • On January 21, 1899, Aguinaldo finally promulgated the Malolos Constitution • It established a democratic, republication government with three branches - the Executive, Legislative and the Judicial branches.

• some of the provisions are: Separation of church and state Free public education at primary level Collection of taxes as mandated by law • lasted until the Philippine-American War • “Article 5. The State recognizes the freedom and equality of religions, as well as the separation of the Church and State.”

First Philippine Republic

Earlier, on January 2, he formed the cabinet as follows:

Apolinario Mabini - President of the Cabinet and Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Teodoro Sandico - Secretary of the Interior

Baldomero Aguinaldo - Secretary of War

Mariano Trias - Secretary of Finance

Gracio Gonzaga - Secretary of Welfare, including Public Instruction, Public Works, Communications, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce

• On January 23, 1899, the Philippine Republic was inaugurated at Malolos. "to live under the democratic regime of the Philippine Republic, free from the yoke of any foreign domination." • "Great is this day, glorious this date, and forever memorable this moment in which our beloved people are raised to the apotheosis of Independence."

Presented by : Cunado, Kriztel Joyce M. Dela Cruz, Alona