Declaring February 8th of Each Year As Constitution Day
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Declaring February 8th of Each Year As Constitution Day
Proclamation No. 36
February 7, 1936
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Summary of Proclamation No. 36Declaring February 8th of Each Year as Constitution Day
- On February 8, 1935, the representatives of the Filipino people in convention assembled approved the Constitution of the Philippines.
- The Constitution embodies the ideals of liberty and democracy of the Filipino people, expresses their love of peace, order, education, and progress, establishes safeguards for individual rights, ensures the formation of a citizenry conscious of its responsibilities to the State, secures the conservation of the nation's patrimony, provides for the defense of the national territory, and guarantees a regime of equality and justice under a republican form of government.
- It is necessary to inculcate in the minds of the citizens, especially the youth, the great principles and sound precepts proclaimed and ordained in the Constitution, so that the sense of dignity and national consciousness may ever be alive in their hearts, and that they may be accustomed to the rules and practices of democracy and respect its institutions.
- The fulfillment of these purposes depends on the maintenance of national sovereignty and the success of the constitutional government established in the country for the progress and well-being of its inhabitants.
- President Manuel L. Quezon, by virtue of the powers vested in him, proclaims the eighth day of February of each year as Constitution Day, for due and fitting observance throughout the country, particularly in all public schools and institutions of learning.
- The proclamation was done at the City of Manila, on the seventh day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.
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Declaring February 8th of Each Year As Constitution Day
Proclamation No. 36
•February 7, 1936
MALACAÑAN PALACEManila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 36
DECLARING FEBRUARY 8th OF EACH YEAR AS CONSTITUTION DAY
Whereas, on the eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the representative of the Filipino people in convention assembled approved the Constitution of the Philippines;
Whereas, this Constitution embodies the ideals of liberty and democracy of the Filipino people; expresses their love of peace, order, education, and progress; establishes the necessary safeguards for individual rights; insures the formation of a citizenry conscious of its solemn responsibilities to the State; secures the conservation of the patrimony of the nation; provides for the defense of the national territory, and guarantees a regime of equality and justice under a government republican in form and in fact; and
Whereas, it is necessary to inculcate in the minds of the citizens of the Philippinesespecially upon the youththe great principles and sound precepts proclaimed and ordained in the Constitution, to the end that the sense of dignity and national consciousness may ever be alive in their hearts, and that the...
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