The Malolos Republic

August 22, 1898

• the transfer of the government's seat of power

September 15, 1898

• the election of the Congress Officers

Barasoain Church

• Apolinario Mabini argued that under the decree of its creation, the Congress was a mere consultative body Apolinario

Mabini

The three draft constitution

• Mabini Plan~ Constitutional Program of the Philippine Republic and

based on the Statutes of Universal Masonry

• Paterno Plan ~ Based on the Spanish Constitution of 1868

• Calderon Plan ~ Based on the Constitution of France, Belgium, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Brazil

Treaty of Paris

• The Spanish Government ceded the Philippines to the American Government

Separation of Church and State

• On whether or not church and state should be united showed the democratic orientation of the delegates