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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 September 2016
      22 August 2016
      ISBN:
      9781139175906
      9781107024670
      9781108790710
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175906
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 340 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
      Subjects:
      Legal History, US Law, Law, History, Twentieth Century American History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    Subjects:
    Legal History, US Law, Law, History, Twentieth Century American History
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    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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