This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES: INSULAR GOVERNMENT To any person desiring to make a careful study of the problem confronting the United States in the framing of a system of government and administration for the Philippine Islands, the fact that must first impress him is the complexity of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES: INSULAR GOVERNMENT To any person desiring to make a careful study of the problem confronting the United States in the framing of a system of government and administration for the Philippine Islands, the fact that must first impress him is the complexity of the questions presented and the difficulties involved in their solution. Here, even more than in the case of Porto Rico, the devising of a form of government for the Philippines is not a single problem to be met merely by the enactment of an organic law. The passage of such a law constitutes merely the first and, in many respects, the simplest step. The Philippine Archipelago is inhabited by peoples and races representing almost every stage of development, from complete savagery to comparative civilization. The form of government that would be adapted to one would be totally unsuitable for another. The general problem of providing a government for the Philippine Islands thus presents almost every possible question relating to colonial government. To meet this situation it has consequently been necessary to elaborate, not one, but various, systems of government, each in a large degree constituting a distinct type of government and together illustrating forms of government running all the way from that of direct and almost autocratic action by a military or civil governor, without the intervention of even an advisory council, to that where the people are given a large measure of local autonomy and participation in the management of their public affairs. In the study that follows, therefore, we shall be called upon to describe a number of distinct forms of government, those, namely, by which provision is made for the government of (1) the...
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