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RECENT accounts by historiographers are enriching information that indeed, through all these years, many more Filipinos participated in efforts at drafting the highest law of the land for social ordering or nationhood. Reference is not only to the 1899 Malolos Constitution, the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution, the 1943 Japanese Constitution, the 1973 Constitution and the 1987 Constitution but also to the continuing quest for nationhood via a highest law of the land during the most trying times.
In fact, the senseless garroting of the martyred Gomburza in 1872, who were key figures in the secularization/Filipinization movement of the Catholic parishes in the country, gave clarity and voice to our discontent in the form of a call for nationhood. Bonifacio and Aguinaldo brought that call to the battlefields in an irrevocable cry to separate from Spain.
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