This document was created in 1986 and ratified the following year. The government of the Philippines then became a Unitary Presidential Constitutional Republic. The document is divided into several sections outlining the territory of the Philippines, the rights of citizens and so on.

The Constitution of the Philippines, or the revised version of the 1987 Freedom Constitution, is a description of the three independent Constitutional Commissions overseeing the civil service, Philippine laws, and Philippine government expenditures. This informative document is a description of the basic system of government in the Philippines.