Felipe Calderón y Roca
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca ( * April 4, 1868; † July 6, 1908 ) was a Filipino lawyer and author of the Malolos Constitution, which is considered the first republican constitution in Asia. He was born the son of Jose Gonzales Calderon and Manuela Roca in Santa Cruz de Malabon.
He studied at the Ateneo de Municipal, Ateneo de Manila University today, and graduated in 1885 with the academic title of Bachelor of Arts. He should seek the priesthood at the request of his mother, he enrolled at the Pontifical and Royal University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Manila (UST ) and took various jobs to finance the studies of law. He worked for the Spanish newspaper La Oceania Española and wrote pro- Filipino products. He resigned, however, since hardly any articles have been published, and he received no money. Calderon was for this reason tutoring, among other things, for the son of Don Francisco Roxas. Roxas was generously funded and Calderon travel to Hong Kong, Singapore and India. When he returned, he settled in Bauan and married Josefa Amurao.
Calderon graduated in 1893 from the Lincenciate of Law and then worked in Cayetano Arellano firm of, before opening his own law firm in the province of Cavite. In 1895, he wrote again to the UST in order to study philosophy, science and literature. As 1896, the Philippine Revolution broke out and rang the cry of the falcon nest, the liberal-minded Calderon was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Santiago. After his release in 1897 he lived in retirement in Manila with his family. After the revolution after the end of the Republic of Biak -na- Bato came to a halt and Emilio Aguinaldo went to Hong Kong, but seems to have used him a rethink. After Aguinaldo returned to Manila in May 1898 Calderon offered him his services.
Calderon was appointed in September 1898 to the Revolutionary Congress in Malolos to represent the province of Palawan. He was given the task to draw up a constitution. The draft was debated at the conference, particularly the five articles. Calderon wrote in his draft that Catholicism should be the state religion of the Philippines. This has been amended by the delegates of the Congress, so that the Constitution adopted providing for the freedom of choice of religion and the separation of church and state.
A few months after the Philippine- American War broke out, Calderon began with the Schurman Commission appointed by the United States to work together. He helped the U.S. authorities in the restructuring of municipalities in the Philippines. In the same year he founded the Colegio de Abogados de Manila organization and the law school Escuela de Derecho. In 1904 he was commissioned by the Taft Commission, the first civilian Criminal Code of the Philippines to develop. In 1905 he founded the Asociacion Historica de Filipinas, which until April 1906 Historica de Filipinas, the magazine published by May 1905. Later he became editor of the Encyclopedia Filipina, but did not appear regularly. He wrote popular scientific essays on the history of the Philippines and among other things, the biographies of Jose Maria Basa and Lorenzo Guerrero. Important essays were El Mes de Agosto en la Historia Patria (1896-1906), Mis Memorias Sobre la Revolucion (1907 ), Documentos para la historia de Filipinas.
Felipe G. Calderon died on July 6, 1908 in Saint Paul 's Hospital in Manila.