...when in 1916 the United States Congress enacted the Jones Law, whose title reads that its object is to declare the purpose of the people of the United...Islands and "to provide a MORE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT," the American Congress did not mean to diminish the legislative control already vested in the Filipino...

...Congress assembled, That in conformity with the policy declared in the preamble of the Act entitled 'An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the...future political status of the people of the Philippine Island's and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands,' approved August 29, 1916,...

...of the following title, when the Speaker signed the same: HR 5756. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to declare the purpose of the people of the...to the future political status of the people of the Philip-, pine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these islands," approved August...

...Congress of the United States, voicing America's unselfish nurposes in the Philippines, in a law entitled "An act to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the February, 1924 THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands,"...

...was the first step toward carrying out the Democrat platform pledge. The preamble to this act reads : "WHEREAS, It was never the intention of the people of the United States, in the incipiency of the war with Spain, to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement;...

...explicitly defined in the Act of Congress of August 29, 1916, commonly known as the Jones Law, as follows: "WHEREAS, it was never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the war with Spain to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement;...

...due time enjoy the incomparable blessings of liberty and freedom." The preamble of the Law reads : "Whereas it was never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the War with Spain to make it a war of conquest or territorial aggrandizement;...

...you assist in obtaining independence? 10. What did Rizal say about liberty ? APPENDIX THE JONES LAW AN ACT TO DECLARE THE PURPOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE...never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the War with Spain to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement;...

...people." 47 ORGANIC ACT FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS [PUBLIC — No. 240 — 64TH CONGRESS] [S. 381] AN ACT TO DECLARE THE PURPOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE...never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the War with Spain to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement;...

...commence, and further to define the jurisdiction of that court." approved September (i, 1910. Section 27 of ''An act to declare the* purpose of the people of...provide a more autonomous government for those islands," approved August 29, 1916. So much of sections 4, 9, and 10 of "Aa act to provide for the bringing of...