• Executive Orders: 1-994
• Administrative Orders: 1-504
• Memorandum Orders: 1-832
• Memorandum Circulars: 1-996
• Proclamations: 1-995
• Presidential Decrees: 1-991 (Has full force and effect of law)
• Letters of Implementation: 1-157
• Letters of Instruction: 1-995
• General Orders: 1-157

• Population: 33.71 million (1967)
• Population: 37.90 million (1972)
• Gross Domestic Product: P285,886 million (1966)
• Gross Domestic Product: P361,791 million (1971)
• Gross Domestic Product: P381,497 million (1972)
• Gross Domestic Product: P571,883 million (1985)
• GDP Growth Rate: 4.75% (1966-1971 average)
• GDP Growth Rate: 3.43% (1972-185 average)
• Income Per Capita: P8,932 (1967)
• Income Per Capita: P9,546 (1971)
• Income Per Capita: P9,802 (1972)
• Income Per Capita: P10,524 (1985)
• Total Exports: P70,254 million (1966)
• Total Exports: P63,626 million (1971)
• Total Exports: P71,572 million (1972)
• Total Exports: P137,341 million (1985)
• Unemployment Rate: 7.10% (1966)
• Unemployment Rate: 5.20% (1971)
• Unemployment Rate: 6.30% (1972)
• Unemployment Rate: 12.55% (1985)
• Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate: $1 = P3.9 (1966)
• Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate: $1 = P6.44 (1971)
• Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate: $1 = P6.3 (1972)
• Peso-Dollar Exchange Rate: $1 = P12.55 (1985)

Source: National Statistical Coordination Board, National Accounts of the Philippines, National Statistics Office, Philippine Statistical Yearbook

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• Presidential Decrees:

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1965 Legislative Elections
Five Nacionalistas, two Liberals, and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Nationalist Citizens Party (NCP) won. Overall, the Senate was split between 11 Nacionalistas and 10 Liberals with the two Progressives and one NCP member in caucus with the opposition. The House was won by the Liberals but was soon thereafter under the Nacionalistas.

1967 Senate Midterm Elections
President Marcos’s Nacionalista Party won the Senate by landslide with six of its bets winning as opposed to only one Liberal, Senator Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino, and one independent. This shifted the balance of power in the upper chamber to the administration party. After the elections the Nacionalistas had 15 seats in the Senate, as opposed to only seven Liberals, one member of the NCP, and an independent who caucused with the NP.

1967 Constitutional Plebiscite

1969 Presidential Elections
Marcos ran for re-election and faced Senator Sergio Osmeña, Jr. of the Liberal Party. For the first time in Third Republic, a President was re-elected to a full four-year term.

1969 Legislative Elections
The NP again swept the Senate, 5-2, further solidifying the administration party’s grip on the upper chamber with 18 Nacionalistas, five Liberals, and one member of the NCP. In the House the LP was also soundly defeated by the administration NP.

1971 Constitutional Convention
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1971 Senate Midterm Elections
The fallout from the Plaza Miranda bombing resulted in an opposition win in the Senatorial race with six Liberals and two Nacionalistas winning. Despite the electoral rout by the LP, this translated to modest gains in the 24-seat upper chamber for the opposition, with only nine Liberals as opposed to 15 Nacionalistas.

Martial Law
President Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081, placing the country under Martial Law and paving the way for the abolition of Congress. The Senate and the House of Representatives had adjourned on September 21, 1972. The regular session of 1973, which was meant to resume in January, was preempted by the ratification of the 1973 Constitution.

1973 Constitutional Plebiscite

1973 Constitutional Plebiscite

1975 Referendum

1976 Constitutional Plebiscite

Batasang Bayan
President Ferdinand E. Marcos issues Presidential Decree No. 995, creating a legislative advisory council, the Batasang Bayan, a quasi-legislative machinery to normalize the legislative process for the eventual actualization of the 1973 Constitution.

1977 Constitutional Plebiscite
On December 16-17, 1977, voters approved the continuation of Ferdinand E. Marcos as incumbent President and Prime Minister after the Interim Batasang Pambansa.

Interim Batasang Pambansa
In order to fulfill the provisions of the 1973 Constitution on the institution of a parliamentary government, President Ferdinand E. Marcos signs Presidential Decree No. 1296, providing for the election of members of the Interim Batasang Pambansa. The Mambabatas Pambansa, also known as Assemblymen, would be elected per region, via a bloc-voting system.

1981 Constitutional Plebiscite
A national plebiscite was held on April 7, 1981 to approve amendments to the 1973 Constitution that granted additional powers to the President and amended Articles VII, VIII, IX and XIV. Local plebiscites were also held in Bohol, South Cotabato and Zamboanga del Norte.

1981 Presidential Elections
President Marcos wins re-election by landslide against former Defense Secretary Alejo Santos.

1981 Constitutional Plebiscite
In a referendum held with the national elections, the majority voted to hold the barangay elections pursuant to Proclamation No. 2088.

1984 Constitutional Plebiscite
The following amendments to the 1973 Constitution were approved on January 27, 1984: creating the Office of the Vice President, abolishing the Executive Committee and allowing for elections of the Regular Batasang Pambansa by provinces, cities and districts.

Regular Batasang Pambansa
In contrast to the Interim Batasang Pambansa, the Assemblymen of the Regular Batasang Pambansa were elected at-large and per province.

1986 Presidential Elections
President Marcos succumbed to international pressure and called for a snap Presidential election. Though Marcos and his running mate former Senator and Assemblyman Arturo Tolentino were proclaimed by the Batasang Pambansa as the winners of the election, a popular revolt installed opposition leaders Corazon C. Aquino and Salvador H. Laurel as President and Vice President, respectively.

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