THE

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

OF

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN STUDIES IN

THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

BY

GEORGE A. MALCOLM, LL.D.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, and Professor of Public
Law in the University of the Philippines; Author of "The Government of

the Philippine Islands," "Philippine Civics," "The Revised
Ordinances of the City of Manila," "Legal Ethics," etc.

SECOND EDITION

The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company

Manila, P. I.

Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A.

Copyright 1920, 1926

BY

GEORGE A. MALCOLM

To

the Members

of the future Philippine Constitutional Convention

with the sincere hope

that these modest studies in Constitutional Law

may serve to lighten their patriotic labors

and to inspire them to produce a Constitution which shall establish and insure

a popular, Democratic Government