This book contains the basics of the Philippine government and the important provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

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.

This book examines how the colonial Philippine constitution weakened the safeguards that shielded liberty from power and unleashed a constitutional despotism.