The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State

Imperial Rule and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Philippine Islands, 1898–1935

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19941364
AutoresLeia Castañeda Anastacio (autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Data de publicação2016-08-22
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoFoundations of the Modern Philippine State (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139175906
OpenAlexW3148355811
Open LibraryOL34556563M
ISBN9781139175906
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

The US occupation of the Philippine Islands in 1898 began a foundational period of the modern Philippine state. With the adoption of the 1935 Philippine Constitution, the legal conventions for ultimate independence were in place. In this time, American officials and their Filipino elite collaborators established a representative, progressive, yet limited colonial government that would modernize the Philippine Islands through colonial democracy and developmental capitalism. Examining constitutional discourse in American and Philippine government records, academic literature, newspaper and personal accounts, The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State concludes that the promise of America's liberal empire was negated by the imperative of insulating American authority from Filipino political demands. Premised on Filipino incapacity, the colonial constitution weakened the safeguards that shielded liberty from power and unleashed liberalism's latent tyrannical potential in the name of civilization. This forged a constitutional despotism that haunts the Islands to this day

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