THE TYDINGS MCDUFFIE ACT
The Tydings McDuffie Act, otherwise known as the Philippine Independence Act, was approved on March 24th, 1934, and provided for the independence of the Philippines from the United States by 1946. It set up drafting and guidelines of a constitution for a 10-year transitional period (Commonwealth of the Philippines) before granting independence in 1946. During this time period, the United States would keep military forces in the Philippines, the United States president was granted power to call into military service all military forces of Philippine government, and it permitted the maintenance of US naval bases within the region until 1947. Also, embodied in this act was the reclassification of all Filipinos as aliens for the purpose of immigration to the United States, with a quota of fifty immigrants per year.
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