February 8, 1935: the Philippine Constitution was adopted

On February 8, 1935, the Philippine Constitutional Convention sitting in Manila approved the draft of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines, the fundamental law that would govern the Commonwealth and guide the country to eventual independence from the United States. This charter, often called the Commonwealth Constitution, became the basic law of the land until it was superseded during the Marcos period and later replaced by the 1987 Constitution.