ABSTRACT
The old regime in the Philippines has disappeared forever. Twice the Filipinos' revolution erupted. The first stage advanced from August 1896 to an early climax, when, on May 31,1897, Emilio Aguinaldo, 23 years old, had proclaimed a Philippine Republic. The first secular and state-supported institution of higher learning, a short-lived Literary University of the Philippines, was the republic's most important attempt at educational innovation. During the so-called "Taft Era" between 1900 and 1913, the constitutional, educational, and landed property bases for American rule in the Philippines materialized under William Howard Taft's leadership and the two presidents, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, he served. On July 1, 1902, Congress passed the Philippine Organic Act to define constitutional authority. Executive power remained with the Commission. The Commission failed to realize its economic objectives as well. Taft aimed to attract US investment in Philippine agriculture by offering huge tracts from the public domain.
