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Commonwealth of the Philippines
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Commonwealth of the Philippines
The
Commonwealth of the Philippines
(; ) was the administrative body that governed the
Philippines
from 1935 to 1946, aside from a
period of exile
in the
Second World War
from 1942 to 1945 when
Japan occupied the country
. It replaced the
Insular Government
, a
United States territorial
government, and was established by the
Tydings–McDuffie Act
. The Commonwealth was designed as a transitional administration in preparation for the country's full achievement of independence.
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