How June 12 as PH Independence day was correctly restored as the genuine National Day of the Philippines. (Hint: It was not Pres. Diosdado Macapagal)
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However, early in 1960, the Philippine Historical Association (PHA) petitioned the President and the Congress of the Philippines to adopt and declare 12 June every year as the true independence day of the country. Arguments became heated and nasty. The issue approximate the republican issue of contemporary Australia. The American colonial bond was strong. American educated Senator Camilo Osias was one of those who opposed the change but at the end found the light and strongly supporte the PHA position.
According to Historian Esteban A. de Ocampo, the 12 June proclamation was desirable for it was an act undertaken by Filipinos themselves in the exercise of their voluntary, spontaneous, deliberate, solemn and sovereign will. Commenting on the same subject, then Senator Ambrosio Padilla stated during the debate that the Truman Proclamation was a notorious document in international law for proclaiming the independence of the Philippines when by tradition and by history the only ones that can proclaim the independence of a country are the people of that country.
More Filipinos became enlightened and beleivede that it was appropriate to rectify the practice of observing and celebrating their independence day on 4 July of every year. The PHA, however, did not dismiss the importance of 4 July in Philippine history. The learned body recommended that the date be commemorated instead as a thanksgiving day for the restoration and recognition of Philippine independence by the Americans.
It was a national issue that found support from the then President Diosdado Macapagal, who in 1962, issued a proclamation declaring 12 June, instead of 4 July, as Philippine Independence Day. In issuing the presidential directive, President Macapagal stated that the heroic and inspiring event was a legitimate assertion by the Filipinos of their natural and inalienable claim to freedom and independence.
Link to full article:
http://muntingnayon.com/
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However, early in 1960, the Philippine Historical Association (PHA) petitioned the President and the Congress of the Philippines to adopt and declare 12 June every year as the true independence day of the country. Arguments became heated and nasty. The issue approximate the republican issue of contemporary Australia. The American colonial bond was strong. American educated Senator Camilo Osias was one of those who opposed the change but at the end found the light and strongly supporte the PHA position.
According to Historian Esteban A. de Ocampo, the 12 June proclamation was desirable for it was an act undertaken by Filipinos themselves in the exercise of their voluntary, spontaneous, deliberate, solemn and sovereign will. Commenting on the same subject, then Senator Ambrosio Padilla stated during the debate that the Truman Proclamation was a notorious document in international law for proclaiming the independence of the Philippines when by tradition and by history the only ones that can proclaim the independence of a country are the people of that country.
More Filipinos became enlightened and beleivede that it was appropriate to rectify the practice of observing and celebrating their independence day on 4 July of every year. The PHA, however, did not dismiss the importance of 4 July in Philippine history. The learned body recommended that the date be commemorated instead as a thanksgiving day for the restoration and recognition of Philippine independence by the Americans.
It was a national issue that found support from the then President Diosdado Macapagal, who in 1962, issued a proclamation declaring 12 June, instead of 4 July, as Philippine Independence Day. In issuing the presidential directive, President Macapagal stated that the heroic and inspiring event was a legitimate assertion by the Filipinos of their natural and inalienable claim to freedom and independence.
Link to full article:
http://muntingnayon.com/
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