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The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State

The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State

Castañeda Anastacio, Leia

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1108790712
ISBN13: 9781108790710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 14 2019
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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