Revolutionary Government of the Philippines
Revolutionary Government of the Philippines | |||||||||||
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| 1898–1899 | |||||||||||
| Anthem: Marcha Nacional Filipina (English: "Philippine National March") | |||||||||||
Territory claimed by the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines in Asia | |||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||||
| Capital | Bacoor (June 1898 – August 1898) Malolos (August 1898 – January 1899) | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Spanish, Tagalog | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism, Islam, Indigenous Philippine folk religions | ||||||||||
| Government | Revolutionary republic | ||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||
• 1898–1899 | Emilio Aguinaldo | ||||||||||
| President of the Cabinet | |||||||||||
• 1899 | Apolinario Mabini | ||||||||||
| Legislature | None (rule by decree) (June 23 – September 15, 1898) Malolos Congress (from 1898) | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Philippine Revolution | ||||||||||
• Established | June 23, 1898 | ||||||||||
| August 13, 1898 | |||||||||||
| December 10, 1898 | |||||||||||
| January 23, 1899 | |||||||||||
| Currency | Philippine peso | ||||||||||
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The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (Spanish: Gobierno Revolucionario de Filipinas) was a revolutionary government established in the Spanish East Indies on June 23, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, by Emilio Aguinaldo, its initial and only president. The government succeeded a dictatorial government that had been established by Aguinaldo on June 18 and was dissolved and replaced by this government upon its establishment. This government endured until January 23, 1899, when the proclamation of the Malolos Constitution established an insurgent Philippine Republic government that replaced it.
Four governmental departments were initially created, each having several bureaus: foreign relations, marine, and commerce; war and public works; police, justice, instruction, and hygiene; finance, agriculture, and industry. A revolutionary congress was established with power "[t]o watch over the general interest of the Philippine people, and carrying out of the revolutionary laws; to discuss and vote upon said laws; to discuss and approve, prior to their ratification, treaties and loans; to examine and approve the accounts presented annually by the secretary of finance, as well as extraordinary and other taxes which may hereafter be imposed."
On August 14, 1898, two days after the Battle of Manila of the Spanish–American War and about two months after Aguinaldo's proclamation of this revolutionary government, the United States established a military government in the Philippines, with General Merritt acting as military governor.