The political and constitutional ideas of the Philippine revolution /

Majul, Cesar Adib.

The political and constitutional ideas of the Philippine revolution / Cesar adib Majul ; with an introduction by Leopoldo Y. Yabes. - xiv, 237 pages 23 cm.

and order - in the sense of integrating Filipino society within a supreme coercive authority. It was the desire of the author to throw light on those fundamental aspirations that have contributed to the formation of our nation. The readers are given an opportunity to conclude as to whether or not the kind of community dreamt by our Revolutionary Fathers has been attained, or what amounts to the same question, whether or not the work of the Revolution has been terminated. This edition is essentially an attempt to present a history of ideas. It also represents and effort to related historical data with the movement of ideas - more specially, ideas intimately connected with events of the Philippine Revolution. Thus the work covers many subjects, but there is no claim that all of them had been thoroughly investigated. However, it is analyzed to a great extent the contents of those ideas which our Revolutionary Fathers utilized to make the Filipinos more of a community with increasingly definite ideals and commitment. In brief, these were the ideas believed to have been conducive to the construction of "order" in Philippine society. Order - in the sense of uniting Filipinos by means of certain preconceived values and principles believed by their leaders to be the most adequate for the happiness of the people

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JA 84.P6 / .M289 1996