MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 36

DECLARING FEBRUARY 8th OF EACH YEAR AS CONSTITUTION DAY

Whereas, on the eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the representative of the Filipino people in convention assembled approved the Constitution of the Philippines;

Whereas, this Constitution embodies the ideals of liberty and democracy of the Filipino people; expresses their love of peace, order, education, and progress; establishes the necessary safeguards for individual rights; insures the formation of a citizenry conscious of its solemn responsibilities to the State; secures the conservation of the patrimony of the nation; provides for the defense of the national territory, and guarantees a regime of equality and justice under a government republican in form and in fact; and

Whereas, it is necessary to inculcate in the minds of the citizens of the Philippines—especially upon the youth—the great principles and sound precepts proclaimed and ordained in the Constitution, to the end that the sense of dignity and national consciousness may ever be alive in their hearts, and that the may be accustomed to the rules and practices of democracy and to respect its institutions, for upon the fulfillment of these purposes depend the maintenance of national sovereignty and the success of constitutional government established in this country for the progress and well-being of its inhabitants;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L.Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim the eighth day of February of each year as Constitution Day, for due and fitting observance throughout the country, particularly in all the public schools and institutions of learning.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.1âwphi1

Done at the City of Manila, this seventh day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior


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