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1939 Philippine constitutional plebiscite

1939 referendum

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ16971443 ↗
Source-derived summary

A plebiscite on the amendment to the Constitution of the Philippines pursuant to resolution of the dated November 3, 1939, setting up export tariffs for goods such as sugar. This occurred on October 24, 1939.

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See also

Commission on Elections

Politics of the Philippines

Philippine elections

Trade agreement

References

Quezon, Manuel III (2009-06-09). "The referendum scorecard 1935-1987". Retrieved 2013-03-19.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1939 Philippine constitutional plebiscite” as 1939 referendum. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 2009, 1935, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Philippine, constitutional and plebiscite can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1939 referendum. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1939 Philippine constitutional plebiscite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.