Being a colony of the United States, Philippine laws were passed by the ________.

• A. Supreme Court
• B. National Economic and Development Authority
• C. US Congress
• D. Philippine Congress

Answer: (C)

During the American colonial period, the Philippines did not have full sovereignty to pass its own laws. The ultimate legislative power lay with the United States Congress, which enacted laws governing the islands and set the framework within which local governance operated. Local bodies could draft ordinances under that framework, but major laws came from Congress and could be shaped or overridden by the U.S. authorities. The Supreme Court is a court, not a law-making body; the National Economic and Development Authority is a later Philippine agency, not a legislative body; and the Philippine Legislature as a fully sovereign lawmaker did not exist during the colony in the same way it does after independence.