This primer provides a simplified and accessible guide to the 1935 Philippine Constitution, which laid the legal framework for the newly inaugurated Commonwealth of the Philippines. Authored by Vicente G. Sinco, a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of the Philippines , the text was explicitly created for intermediate school pupils and the average intelligent citizen who sought to understand the "high points of their Constitution" during the formative "first days in the life of our Commonwealth". The establishment of the Commonwealth in November 1935, under the terms of the U.S. Congress's Tydings-McDuffie Law (Philippine Independence Law) , marked a crucial ten-year transition period toward full independence. The book's purpose was to promote "loyal and intelligent citizenship" by educating Filipinos on the supreme law of their land , which for the first time was made by and approved by Filipinos themselves. This work stands as a key educational artifact from a pivotal moment in Philippine history, documenting the legal foundation of the nation's final step toward sovereignty.
A primer of the Philippine constitution