LESSON

5 THE SPEECH OF PRESIDENT CORAZON C.

AQUINO

WHAT’S NEW

Activity 1. What you do

Directions: List down the programs/projects of the famous presidents of the Philippines

Name of Presidents of the Philippines Programs/Projects

FERDINAND MARCOS Ferdinand Marcos is remembered for
running a corrupt and undemocratic
government as the 10th President of the
Philippines (1965-1986).

Marcos came to power in 1965 and was

elected to a 2nd term in 1969. However in
the face of public unrest he imposed martial
law(1972-1981).In1983 his longtime
political opponent, Ninoy Aquino is
assassinated and Marcos' government
implicated. The country ignites in protests.
This eventually leads to a snap elections in
1986, Marcos running against Corazon
Aquino. The election is marred by
widespread reports of violence and
tampering of election results.The so-called
People's Power Revolution gained strength
eventually forcing forcing Marcos and his
government to capitulate. Marcos is forced
to flee to Hawaii where he dies in 1989.In
the 2004 Global Transparency Report,
Marcos appeared in the list of the World's
Most Corrupt Leaders. He was said to have
amassed between $5 billion to $10 billion in
his 21 years as President.
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. declares
existence of "a state of rebellion", after
thousands of supporters of her arrested
predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm
towards the presidential palace at height of
EDSA III rebellion, 2006-02-24 President of
the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
declares Proclamation 1017 placing the
country in a state of emergency in attempt
to subdue possible military coup.
EMILIO AGUINALDO Emilio Aguinaldo was a Filipino
revolutionary general and 1st President of
the Philippines. He played a leading role in
the Revolution against Spain (1896-1897)
and against the United States during the
Philippine-American War (1899-1901).

After battling Spanish forces, in 1897

Aguinaldo signed the “Pact of Biak-na-
Bato” with the Spanish Government giving
the rebels amnesty and monetary
indemnity, in return for the rebels exile in
Hong Kong. He reorganized his
revolutionary government into the so-called
"Hong Kong Junta" and enlarged it into the
"Supreme Council of the Nation".

Aguinaldo returned to the Philippines and

resumed command of revolutionary forces
besieging Manila. He issued a decree
replacing his dictatorial government with a
revolutionary government, declaring himself
President.

In June 1898 he declared the Philippines

independent from Spain. However by
February 1899 he was fighting the
Philippine-American War (1899-1901), and
when captured in 1901 swore an oath of
allegiance to the US in the face of
outstanding odds.

In 1935 Aguinaldo ran unsuccessfully

against Manuel Quezon during the
Philippine Commonwealth elections.
ELPIDIO QUIRINO Elpidio Quirono was the 6th President of
the Philippines and its 2nd post
independence. His term was marked by
post war economic gains but marred by
accusations of corruption and misspent
funds.A lawyer by profession Quirino
entered politics when he became a
representative for Ilocos Sur in 1919 and
was later elected as senator in
1925.Quirino was a member of the
Philippine independence commission that
was sent to the US and which secured the
passage of Tydings–McDuffie Act ensuring
a timetable for Philippine's independence.
After WW II Quirino served as Vice
President under Manuel Roxas and
became President after his death in
1948.While Quirino's administration abroad
excelled in diplomacy, his term at home
was beset by a Huk insurgency and
allegations of corruption, as evidenced in
the Tambobong-Buenavista scandal.
Quirino lost the 1953 election to his former
supporter Magsaysay and retired from
political life.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY Ramon Magsaysay was the first President
of the Philippines to come from the lower
middle class and the first not to be elected
from the Senate. Throughout his tenure he
was well-loved for his sense of humility.
While he aligned himself with US interests
he is also credited with making a stand on
anti-corruption.Magsaysay came to power
for his part on restoring law and order
during the crisis in 1950 and successfully
defeating the communist-led Hukbalahap
movement.
During his term as president Magsaysay
passed significant agrarian reforms and
established a system for hearing
grievances of the people. His life and term
of office was tragically cut short by his
death in a plane crash in 1957. 1956-05-09
War Reparations and Peace Settlement
between Philippines and Japan was finally
signed at Malacañang Palace under
Magsaysay administration.
MANUEL L. QUEZON A major figure during Philippine fight for
independence, Quezon first joined the
Aguinaldo-led anti US resistance in 1899.
By 1909 he was serving as commissioner
to the US Senate for the Philippines.

After being elected to the Senate and

becoming its President he was instrumental
in getting the Tydings-McDuffie
Independence Law passed in the US in
1934. This gave the Philippines
independence after a 10 year period.

Queron was elected the Philippines 2nd

President in 1935 as its first Filippino
President and the first to be nationally
elected. In government Quezon addressed
the issue of landless peasants, and
reorganized much of the government.

Quezon also worked with General

MacArthur to strengthen the Philippines
militarily, but it was in vain and when the
Japanese invaded in 1941 Quezon fled to
the US. There he formed a government in
exile. He died in the US in 1944.

Quezon City, part of Greater Manilia, which

Quezon founded, is named after him, as is
Quezon province. He is also known as the
"Father of the National Language" for
advocating Filipino-language amendments
to the 1935 Constitution.
MANUEL ROXAS Manuel Roxas was the last president of the
Commonwealth of the Philippines (elected
1946) and the first of the sovereign
Philippine Republic, overseeing the
country's transition to independence from
the United States of America.

Although independent, the Philippines and

Roxas' administration was still very reliant
on US financial support and Roxas was
able to negotiate rehabilitation funds to
rebuild the country. In return he granted 99
year leases on 23 American bases. His
administration was further marked by
corruption and violent attempts to put down
some opposition.
CORAZON AQUINO Named the “Mother of Philippine
Democracy”, Aquino was the 1st woman to
become President of the Philippines and
the most prominent figure of the 1986
People Power Revolution that toppled the
20-year authoritarian rule of Ferdinand
Marcos.

Corazon Aquino was wife of prominent

opposition politician Benigno Aquino and
when he was assassinated in 1983 and
Marco's government implicated, she rose to
political prominence.

In February 1986, Marcos announced a

snap election and Aquino ran against him in
an election marred by corrupt practices and
violence. Aquino contested the declaration
of Marcos' win and when the military
supported her, Marcos and his supporters
fled the country.

Some of Aquino's first efforts in power were

to create a Constitutional Commission to
draft a new constitution, giving strong
emphasis to civil liberties. Aquino also set
up a Presidential Commission on Good
Government (PCGG) in an attempt to
retrieve President Marcos’s ill-gotten
wealth.

Throughout her term Aquino focused on

restoring the country's dented economic
reputation while also focusing on peace
talks to try to resolve the ongoing
Communist insurgency and Islamist
secession movements.
JOSE LAUREL José Laurel had a distinguished career as a
supreme court justice before, during the
WW II Japanese occupation of the
Philippines he cooperated with the
Japanese by forming a government in 1943
and assuming the presidency.

Laurel's presidency remains controversial

and wasn't officially recognized by later
regimes until the 1960s. His presidency is
remembered today for its efforts to deals
with both food shortages and general
dissent. Laurel was able to resist Japanese
efforts to draft Filipinos into the Japanese
war effort.

During his first year in office Laurel survived

an assassination attempt when he was shot
around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol.

After Japan's surrender in 1945, Laurel was

arrested and charged with 132 counts of
treason but due to an amnesty never tried.
He was elected to the senate in 1951 and
retired from public life in 1957.
JOSEPH ESTRADA 13th President of the Philippines from 1998
to 2001. He initially gained popularity as a
film actor, which he used to make gains in
politics. He was eventually ousted as
President, however, after allegations of
corruption spawned an impeachment trial.

Questions:
1. How do you find the activity? I find the activity by analyzing and researching for program
and projects of all former president
2. Who is your favorite president? Why? Ferdinand Marcos because for he is the one of the
ones I know who have done so many projects in our country, one of each is San Juanico
Bridge.
What is It

THE SPEECH OF PRESIDENT CORAZON C. AQUINO

THE SPEECH presented in this lesson was obtained from an official gazette which is an
official journal of the Republic of the Philippines. This speech was delivered by the late
Corazon C. Aquino in the US Congress, Washington DC, on September 18, 1986 six (6)
months after her assumption into office as president of the Republic of the Philippines.

Speech of
Her Excellency Corazon C. Aquino
President of the Philippines
During the Joint Session of the United States Congress

[Delivered at Washington, D.C., on September 18, 1986]

Three years ago, I left America in grief to bury my husband, Ninoy Aquino. I thought I had left it
also to lay to rest his restless dream of Philippine freedom. Today, I have returned as the president
of a free people.

In burying Ninoy, a whole nation honored him. By that brave and selfless act of giving honor, a
nation in shame recovered its own. A country that had lost faith in its future found it in a faithless
and brazen act of murder. So in giving, we receive, in losing we find, and out of defeat, we
snatched our victory.

For the nation, Ninoy became the pleasing sacrifice that answered their prayers for freedom. For
myself and our children, Ninoy was a loving husband and father. His loss, three times in our lives,
was always a deep and painful one.

Fourteen years ago this month was the first time we lost him. A president-turned-dictator, and
traitor to his oath, suspended the Constitution and shut down the Congress that was much like this
one before which I am honored to speak. He detained my husband along with thousands of others –
senators, publishers and anyone who had spoken up for the democracy as its end drew near. But for
Ninoy, a long and cruel ordeal was reserved. The dictator already knew that Ninoy was not a body
merely to be imprisoned but a spirit he must break. For even as the dictatorship demolished one by
one the institutions of democracy – the press, the Congress, the independence of the judiciary, the
protection of the Bill of Rights – Ninoy kept their spirit alive in himself.

The government sought to break him by indignities and terror. They locked him up in a tiny, nearly
airless cell in a military camp in the north. They stripped him naked and held the threat of sudden
midnight execution over his head. Ninoy held up manfully–all of it. I barely did as well. For 43
days, the authorities would not tell me what had happened to him. This was the first time my
children and I felt we had lost him.

When that didn’t work, they put him on trial for subversion, murder and a host of other crimes
before a military commission. Ninoy challenged its authority and went on a fast. If he survived it,
then, he felt, God intended him for another fate. We had lost him again. For nothing would hold
him back from his determination to see his fast through to the end. He stopped only when it
dawned on him that the government would keep his body alive after the fast had destroyed his
brain. And so, with barely any life in his body, he called off the fast on the fortieth day. God meant
him for other things, he felt. He did not know that an early death would still be his fate, that only
the timing was wrong.

At any time during his long ordeal, Ninoy could have made a separate peace with the dictatorship,
as so many of his countrymen had done. But the spirit of democracy that inheres in our race and
animates this chamber could not be allowed to die. He held out, in the loneliness of his cell and the
frustration of exile, the democratic alternative to the insatiable greed and mindless cruelty of the
right and the purging holocaust of the left.

And then, we lost him, irrevocably and more painfully than in the past. The news came to us in
Boston. It had to be after the three happiest years of our lives together. But his death was my
country’s resurrection in the courage and faith by which alone they could be free again. The
dictator had called him a nobody. Two million people threw aside their passivity and escorted him
to his grave. And so began the revolution that has brought me to democracy’s most famous home,
the Congress of the United States.

The task had fallen on my shoulders to continue offering the democratic alternative to our people.

Archibald Macleish had said that democracy must be defended by arms when it is attacked by arms
and by truth when it is attacked by lies. He failed to say how it shall be won.

I held fast to Ninoy’s conviction that it must be by the ways of democracy. I held out for
participation in the 1984 election the dictatorship called, even if I knew it would be rigged. I was
warned by the lawyers of the opposition that I ran the grave risk of legitimizing the foregone
results of elections that were clearly going to be fraudulent. But I was not fighting for lawyers but
for the people in whose intelligence I had implicit faith. By the exercise of democracy, even in a
dictatorship, they would be prepared for democracy when it came. And then, also, it was the only
way I knew by which we could measure our power even in the terms dictated by the dictatorship.

The people vindicated me in an election shamefully marked by government thuggery and fraud.
The opposition swept the elections, garnering a clear majority of the votes, even if they ended up,
thanks to a corrupt Commission on Elections, with barely a third of the seats in parliament. Now, I
knew our power.

Last year, in an excess of arrogance, the dictatorship called for its doom in a snap election. The
people obliged. With over a million signatures, they drafted me to challenge the dictatorship. And I
obliged them. The rest is the history that dramatically unfolded on your television screen and
across the front pages of your newspapers.

You saw a nation, armed with courage and integrity, stand fast by democracy against threats and
corruption. You saw women poll watchers break out in tears as armed goons crashed the polling
places to steal the ballots but, just the same, they tied themselves to the ballot boxes. You saw a
people so committed to the ways of democracy that they were prepared to give their lives for its
pale imitation. At the end of the day, before another wave of fraud could distort the results, I
announced the people’s victory.

The distinguished co-chairman of the United States observer team in his report to your President
described that victory:

“I was witness to an extraordinary manifestation of democracy on the part of the Filipino people.
The ultimate result was the election of Mrs. Corazon C. Aquino as President and Mr. Salvador
Laurel as Vice-President of the Philippines.”

Many of you here today played a part in changing the policy of your country towards us. We,
Filipinos, thank each of you for what you did: for, balancing America’s strategic interest against
human concerns, illuminates the American vision of the world.

When a subservient parliament announced my opponent’s victory, the people turned out in the
streets and proclaimed me President. And true to their word, when a handful of military leaders
declared themselves against the dictatorship, the people rallied to their protection. Surely, the
people take care of their own. It is on that faith and the obligation it entails, that I assumed the
presidency.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. That is my contract with my people and my
commitment to God. He had willed that the blood drawn with the lash shall not, in my country, be
paid by blood drawn by the sword but by the tearful joy of reconciliation.

We have swept away absolute power by a limited revolution that respected the life and freedom of
every Filipino. Now, we are restoring full constitutional government. Again, as we restored
democracy by the ways of democracy, so are we completing the constitutional structures of our
new democracy under a constitution that already gives full respect to the Bill of Rights. A jealously
independent Constitutional Commission is completing its draft which will be submitted later this
year to a popular referendum. When it is approved, there will be congressional elections. So within
about a year from a peaceful but national upheaval that overturned a dictatorship, we shall have
returned to full constitutional government. Given the polarization and breakdown we inherited, this
is no small achievement.

My predecessor set aside democracy to save it from a communist insurgency that numbered less
than 500. Unhampered by respect for human rights, he went at it hammer and tongs. By the time he
fled, that insurgency had grown to more than 16,000. I think there is a lesson here to be learned
about trying to stifle a thing with the means by which it grows.

I don’t think anybody, in or outside our country, concerned for a democratic and open Philippines,
doubts what must be done. Through political initiatives and local reintegration programs, we must
seek to bring the insurgents down from the hills and, by economic progress and justice, show them
that for which the best intentioned among them fight.

As President, I will not betray the cause of peace by which I came to power. Yet equally, and again
no friend of Filipino democracy will challenge this, I will not stand by and allow an insurgent
leadership to spurn our offer of peace and kill our young soldiers, and threaten our new freedom.

Yet, I must explore the path of peace to the utmost for at its end, whatever disappointment I meet
there, is the moral basis for laying down the olive branch of peace and taking up the sword of war.
Still, should it come to that, I will not waver from the course laid down by your great liberator:
“With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rights as God gives us to see
the rights, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

Like Lincoln, I understand that force may be necessary before mercy. Like Lincoln, I don’t relish
it. Yet, I will do whatever it takes to defend the integrity and freedom of my country.

Finally, may I turn to that other slavery: our $26 billion foreign debt. I have said that we shall
honor it. Yet must the means by which we shall be able to do so be kept from us? Many conditions
imposed on the previous government that stole this debt continue to be imposed on us who never
benefited from it. And no assistance or liberality commensurate with the calamity that was visited
on us has been extended. Yet ours must have been the cheapest revolution ever. With little help
from others, we Filipinos fulfilled the first and most difficult conditions of the debt negotiation the
full restoration of democracy and responsible government. Elsewhere, and in other times of more
stringent world economic conditions, Marshall plans and their like were felt to be necessary
companions of returning democracy.

When I met with President Reagan yesterday, we began an important dialogue about cooperation
and the strengthening of the friendship between our two countries. That meeting was both a
confirmation and a new beginning and should lead to positive results in all areas of common
concern.

Today, we face the aspirations of a people who had known so much poverty and massive
unemployment for the past 14 years and yet offered their lives for the abstraction of democracy.
Wherever I went in the campaign, slum area or impoverished village, they came to me with one
cry: democracy! Not food, although they clearly needed it, but democracy. Not work, although
they surely wanted it, but democracy. Not money, for they gave what little they had to my
campaign. They didn’t expect me to work a miracle that would instantly put food into their mouths,
clothes on their back, education in their children, and work that will put dignity in their lives. But I
feel the pressing obligation to respond quickly as the leader of a people so deserving of all these
things.

We face a communist insurgency that feeds on economic deterioration, even as we carry a great
share of the free world defenses in the Pacific. These are only two of the many burdens my people
carry even as they try to build a worthy and enduring house for their new democracy, that may
serve as well as a redoubt for freedom in Asia. Yet, no sooner is one stone laid than two are taken
away. Half our export earnings, $2 billion out of $4 billion, which was all we could earn in the
restrictive markets of the world, went to pay just the interest on a debt whose benefit the Filipino
people never received.

Still, we fought for honor, and, if only for honor, we shall pay. And yet, should we have to wring
the payments from the sweat of our men’s faces and sink all the wealth piled up by the bondsman’s
two hundred fifty years of unrequited toil?

Yet to all Americans, as the leader of a proud and free people, I address this question: has there
been a greater test of national commitment to the ideals you hold dear than that my people have
gone through? You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that
were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only
the help to preserve it.

Three years ago, I said thank you, America, for the haven from oppression, and the home you gave
Ninoy, myself and our children, and for the three happiest years of our lives together. Today, I say,
join us, America, as we build a new home for democracy, another haven for the oppressed, so it
may stand as a shining testament of our two nation’s commitment to freedom.

WHAT’S MORE

Activity 2. Compare and Contrast

Directions: Draw and complete the diagram in your activity sheet by comparing
oral document from written document.

WRITTEN ORAL
DOCUMENT DOCUMENT

Questions:
1. How do you find the activity?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of oral document (speech)?
Activity 3. Give me the details

Directions: Enumerate the important details mentioned in the speech of President

Corazon C. Aquino. Then, give significance to the Philippine history.

Details/lines Significance to the Philippine

History

Questions:
1. How do you find the activity?
2. How do you analyze the content of the speech of President Corazon Aquino?
3. When was the speech delivered by President Corazon C. Aquino? How was it
delivered?

Activity 4. Reflection

Directions: Write a reflection learned from the discussion. In writing your

reflection, you have to complete the sentence below on a separate sheet of paper.

I learned that________________________________________________________
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I realized that________________________________________________________
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If given a chance_____________________________________________________
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What I Have Learned

Now, tell me what you have learned about the “Speech of President Corazon
C. Aquino”

Name:_______________________________ Date:_______
Course & Year:________________________ Score:______

Give a concise explanation/discussion on the following items.

1. What can you say about this line in the speech of Corazon Aquino””.....and so began
the revolution that has brought me to democracy’s most famous home, the Congress
of the United States”? Which concept in this line is important to you? Why?
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2. What did Corazon Aquino mention in her speech pertaining to the aspiration of the
Filipino people? What are the specific lines for this? What do you feel about these
lines?
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3. In the video, how many times the former President Corazon Aquino have been
applauded by the members of the US Congress? Mention the lines she said for
which she received an overwhelming applause.
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Assessment

You are almost there! Let us check what you have learned about this topic.

Name: _________________________________ Date:_____________

Course & Year:___________________________ Score: __________

Give what is being asked in the following items. Write your answer on the blank.

________1. It refers to the person who is quoted as the president-turned-dictator,

traitor to his oath, and the one who shut down the Congress.
________ 2. It refers to the institution where there is protection of the Bill of rights,
independence of the judiciary, Congress, and the press.
________ 3. It refers to the home of democracy mentioned in Cory Aquino’s
speech.
________ 4. It refers to the American poet mentioned in the speech who described
that democracy must be defended from arms and attacks by lies.
________ 5. It refers to the date mentioned in the speech when an election was
called by the country’s head of State and government.
_________ 6. It refers to the complete name of the elected Vice president of the
Philippines during Corazon Aquino’s administration.
________ 7. It refers to how absolute power was swept away and democracy
rebuilt
by full constitutional restoration.
_________ 8. It refers to the specific and important idea that according to Corazon
Aquino the Filipino people must be free from.
________ 9. It refers to the challenge faced by the Filipino people which according
to Corazon Aquino it is the factor that feeds on economic
deterioration.
________ 10. It refers to the figure on the export earnings of the country which
according to Corazon Aquino went only to pay the interest on the
debt
which the Filipinos never benefited.
WHAT I CAN DO

Directions: Make a rhetorical analysis. Format: 4-5 paragraphs with 5-7

sentences each, typewritten, 1.5 spacing, and Times New Roman size 12. Paper
heading should include the student’s name, course and year, and class time.

Grading rubric

First Paragraph: Begin with an introductory line to gain the reader’s attention
(something of interest regarding the speech, context, audience or theme). Provide a
thesis statement introducing the primary purpose of your paper, significance of
the speech or personal interest you had in the speaker or subject matter.
Concisely preview the points that will be covered in your paper.

Second Paragraph: Discuss the CONTENT of the speech. What was it all about?
Also include the CONTEXT element of the speech like time frame, audience,
purpose, subject matter, etc.

Third Paragraph: Discuss the VERBAL DELIVERY. Was the speech informative?
Was it persuasive and meaningful to the Filipino people?

Fourth Paragraph: CONCLUSION. Signal your closing with signposts such as “In
Summary”, “Finally”, In Review”, “In Conclusion”, etc. review your main points and
end it with a closing thought. Provide your overall impression of the speech.

Post test

Name:________________________________________ Date:_________
Course & Year: ________________________________ Score:________

Read each question carefully and write the letter of the correct answer.

_____ 1. What was the important instruction to Ferdinand Magellan who led an expedition
to
the East?

a. Circumnavigate the earth and record it.

b. Find the islands of Moluca from where the spices come.
c. Gather minerals and other resources vital for industrialization
d. Discover more islands for expansion.

________ 2. What is the name of the island in sight as Magellan arrived on March 16,
1521?

a. Feji (Fiji) b. Mapuan (Mapua) c. Zamal (Samar) d. Zubbu (cebu)

_______ 3. What was the Tagalog’s customary practice which was to establish friendship
and brotherhood?

a. Alyansa (Alliance) c. Dori (Dowry)

b. Cassi-cassi (Kasi-kasi) d. Pandot

_______4. What was the term used to refer to the Tagalog worship?

a. Anito b. nagaanitos c. paganitos d. pagdiwata

______ 5. What is excluded from the practice in offering sacrifices to the gods?

a. Decapitation of goats, fowls, and swine c. proclamation of feast

b. Extraction of virgin’s heart d. singing of poetic songs

______ 6. Which concepts is relative to the Tagalog custom on burial?

a. The deceased was thrown wrapped in a mat.

b. The deceased was placed beneath a little house constructed for the purpose.
c. The deceased was placed above the tree in a basket.
d. The deceased was placed in a wooden coffin and burned.

______ 7. What is the largest and most valuable oil-on-canvass painting of Juan Luna?

a. “Cleopatra” b. “Palay Maiden” c. “Spolarium” d. The Parisian Life”

______ 8. What is true about Fernando Amorsolo’s “Antipolo Fiesta” painting?

a. celebration and scenery c. celebration and harvest

b. celebration and livelihood d. celebration and feast

_______9. What idea is connected to political cartoons?

a. expression of feelings and emotions

b. illustration of social challenges
c. sketch for the delight of viewers
d. used to present criticism on situation
_____ 10. What is untrue in the speech of Corazon C. Aquino delivered in the US
Congress
on September 18, 1986?

a. The relationship of America and the Philippines.

b. The restoration of the government and foreign debt.
c. The Filipino struggle to achieve democracy and its meaning to them.
d. Development of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform in the Philippines.

References

Ligan, V.O., Apsay,L.C., Espino, C.S. T., Salinas,E.D. & Lemana,J.J.

(2018). Readings in Philippine History. Malabon City, Philippines:
Mutya Publishing.

http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1986/09/18/speech-of-president-corazon-aquino