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The constitutional amendement changing the presidential term from six to four years and introducing a second term of office was passed by national plebiscite on June 18, 1940. See, for example, Jean Grossholtz, Politics in the Philippines (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964), pp. 119–124; and Caridad. S. Alfonso, ‘Executive-Legislative Relations’, in Jose Veloso Abueva and Raul P. de Guzman (eds), Foundations and Dynamic of Filipino Government and Politics (Quezon City: Bookmark, 1969), pp.
Robert B. Stauffer, ‘Congress in the Philippine Political System’, in Alan Kornsberg and Lloyd D. C: Duke University Press, 1970), pp. 355. Hayden, The Philippines, pp. 74–75. Irene Cortes, The Philippine Presidency: A Study of Executive Power (Quezon City: Philippine Legal Studies, College of Law, University of the Philippines, 1966), pp. 170–171. The Emergency Powers bill was introduced into the National Assembly by first Commonwealth president Manuel Quezon on July 15, 1940. Regarding tarrifs, import and export quotas, for example, see the Constitution of the Philippines, Article VI, section 22 (2).
32–38; as well as Doug McAdam, The Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982), pp. 23–35. 37 Initially established by an act of the National Assembly, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) was given the ‘exclusive charge of the enforcement and administration of all laws relative to the conduct of election’ according to a constitutional amendment of 1940. See Hayden, The Philippines, pp. 455–456; and Cortes, The Philippine Presidency, pp. 100–101.