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2004-12-15 |
PUNO, J. |
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| Notably, Justice Malcolm himself said that the constitutional law of Spain, then in effect, was "entirely abrogated by the change of sovereignty."[171] As a result, it was the constitutional law of the United States that was transposed to our fledgling political and legal system. To be precise, the principal organic acts of the Philippines included President McKinley's Instructions to the Second Philippine Commission of April 7, 1900, to which this Court recognized the United States Constitution as a limitation[172] upon the powers of the military governor then in charge of the Philippine Islands.[173] | |||||