Names
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was also known as the "Philippine Commonwealth", or simply as "the Commonwealth". It had official names in Tagalog: Kómonwélt ng Pilipinas and Spanish: Mancomunidad de Filipinas . The 1935 constitution specifies "the Philippines" as the country's short form name and uses "the Philippine Islands" only to refer to pre-1935 status and institutions. Under the previous regime, known most formally as the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, both terms had official status.
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