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The First Philippine

Republic
On September 15,1898, a revolutionary Congress of Filipino
representatives met in Malolos, Bulacan at the call of the
Revolutionary Government.
Malolos Republic-as a nascent revolutionary government in the
Philippines. It was formally established with the proclamation of
the Malolos Constitution and endured until the capture of
President Emilio Aguinaldo by the American forces on March 23,
1901, in Palanan, Isabela, which effectively dissolved the First
Republic.
The First Philippine Republic was established after the
Philippine Revolution against Spanish Empire (1896-1897) and
the Spanish-American War between the Spain and the
United States (1898). Following the American victory at the
Battle of Manila Bay, Aquinaldo returned to the Philippines,
issued the Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12,
1898 and established a revolutionary Philippine government. In
December 1898, Spain sold the Philippines to the United States in
the 1898 Treaty of Paris, making the United States formally the
Philippines colonial power. The Malolos Constitution establishing
the First Philippine Republic was proclaimed the following month.
The PhilippineAmerican War began in February 1898, which the
Philippine Republic lost.
The Philippine Republic was the first constitutional republic in
Asia. Although there were several Asian republics predating the
First Philippine Republic for example, the Republic of Formosa or
the Republic of Ezo, the Republic at Malolos was the first to frame
a comprehensive constitution duly approved by an partially
elected congress.
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