The foundations of the modern Philippine state : imperial rule and the American constitutional tradition in the Philippine islands, 1898-1935
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The foundations of the modern Philippine state : imperial rule and the American constitutional tradition in the Philippine islands, 1898-1935
(Cambridge historical studies in American law and society / editors, Arthur McEvoy, Christopher Tomlins)
Cambridge University Press, 2019, c2016
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Republican means, imperial ends: American empire and the rule of law
- 2. American theory, Spanish structure, and Ilustrado capacity: inventing the Filipino people, constructing the American colonial state
- 3. Foreign in a domestic sense: organic sovereignty, unincorporated territories, and the insular doctrine
- 4. Sovereign but not popular: Colonial Leviathan, inherent power, and plenary authority
- 5. Progressive interventions, parchment barriers: civilizing mission, colonial development, and constitutional limitations
- 6. Popular but not sovereign: colonial democracy and the rise of the Philippine Assembly
- 7. American vessels, Filipino spirit: Filipinizing the government of the Philippine Islands
- 8. Filipinizing the public: the business of government and the government in business
- 9. Progressivism, populism, and the public interest: restoring Taft era and the Cabinet Crisis of 1923
- 10. Colonial conflict, constitutional categories: constitutional Imperialism and the Board of Control Cases
- 11. From 'is' to 'ought': constitutionalizing colonial legacies
- Conclusion.
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