Malolos Congress Congreso de Malolos Congreso Revolucionario
Coat of arms of the Philippines (1898–1901)
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	September 15, 1898
Disbanded	November 13, 1899
Preceded by	Cortes of Cádiz Ayuntamiento
Succeeded by	Taft Commission
Leadership
President of the National Assembly	Pedro Paterno
Vice President of the National Assembly	Benito Legarda
Seats	136[1][a]
Meeting place
Barasoain Church

TheMalolos Congress (Spanish:Congreso de Malolos), also known as theRevolutionary Congress (Spanish:Congreso Revolucionario)^[3] and formally theNational Assembly, was the legislative body of theRevolutionary Government of the Philippines and, later, as thePhilippine Republic.

From 1898 to 1899, prior to thePhilippine Declaration of Independence and their gathering atBarasoain Church inMalolos,Bulacan, for the drafting of theMalolos Constitution, congressional delegates used theMalolos station at theMalolos town center.^[4]

Members were chosen in theelections held from June 23 to September 10, 1898. The assembly consisted of elected delegates chosen by balloting in provincial assemblies and appointed delegates chosen by the president to represent regions under unstable military and civilian conditions. The Revolutionary Congress was opened on September 15, 1898. President Emilio Aguinaldo presided over the opening session of the assembly.

After the promulgation of theMalolos Constitution on January 22, 1899, replaced the revolutionary government with thePhilippine Republic,^[b] the Malolos Congress became the legislative branch of that government, designated in the constitution as theAssembly of Representatives.^[5]

• Regular session: September 15, 1898 – November 13, 1899
• Special session: February 4, 1899

President of the Congress

Pedro Paterno

• President:Pedro Paterno
• Vice President:Benito Legarda
• Secretaries:
  • Gregorio S. Araneta
  • Pablo Ocampo

In 2006, it was asserted by the president of the Bulacan Historical Society, engineer Marcial Aniag, that among the 85 delegates who convened in Malolos there were 43 lawyers, 17 doctors, five pharmacists, three educators, seven businessmen, four painters, three military men, a priest, and four farmers.^[7] Five of the 85 delegates did not have a college degree.^[7]

One of the first acts of the Revolutionary Congress was the ratification on September 29, 1898 of thePhilippine Declaration of Independence against Spain which had been proclaimed on June 12, 1898.^[8]

Mabini had planned for the Revolutionary Congress to act only as an advisory body to the president and submitted a draft of Constitutional Program of the Philippine Republic^[8] while Paterno submitted a constitutional draft based on theSpanish Constitution of 1869. The Congress, however, began work to draft a constitution. The resulting document, the Malolos Constitution, was promulgated on January 21, 1899.^[8] Its proclamation resulted in the creation of the Philippine Republic, which replaced the Revolutionary Government.

• Kalaw, Maximo Manguiat (1927).The Development of Philippine Politics. Oriental commercial.

• The Malolos Congress(PDF). National Historical Institute. 2010.

• Malolos Congress

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