Birth of Party and Electoral
Politics
Lecture (HPOLGOV)
Centralized form of govt
• -limited form of suffrage under Spanish govt
• Principales- gobernadorcillo
• Government of Emilio Aguinaldo, 1899
• -after the hostilities between US and Phil.
forces, the revolutionary govt created a
committee tasked to offer negotiations
Philippine Commission
• Taft Commission established the US presence
in the Phil until granting of independence in
1946
• Pardo de Tavera established the Federal Party
in 1900 to seek peace with the US under its
‘benevolent assimilation” framework
• All were appointed by the US President
Anti-Sedition Law
• In the context of this law as the apparent futility
of the victory of the Filipino forces, Federal Party
spread quickly and prominently all over the
Philippines
• -federalistas were in practically appointed to
public office in before 1907
• Federal Party was the only one existing at that
time
Other Formations in the 1900s
• Partido Nacionalista
• Union Obrera
• Partido Conservador
• Partido Democrata
End of insurrection and emergence of
political opposition
• Schurman Commission in 1902- self
government sometime
• All govt members would be Filipinos
• Philippine Assembly (Philippine Bill of 1902