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Philippine Values and Martial Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

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When President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines proclaimed martial law on 22 September 1972, it looked as though this signified the abandonment of American values and influence. Indeed, his foreign minister, Carlos Romulo, justified the new dictatorship on the grounds that democracy was not viable in a country like the Philippines which lacked a substantial middle-class population, and he hailed the Marcos regime as a step away from American ideals ill-suited to a developing Oriental country. As Romulo indicates, the Marcos government is a major shift from the democratic practices inherited from the American period.

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1980

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Adapted from a paper delivered at a meeting of the Philippine Council of the Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, 20 Mar. 1976. This article was received by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies in Sept. 1979.

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