On November 15, 1935, the Commonwealth of the Philippines was inaugurated with Manuel L. Quezon as president and Sergio Osmeña as vice president. Regarded as a unique path towards decolonization at the time, the term "Commonwealth" has been adopted earlier by the United Kingdom through the 1931 Statute of Westminster to refer to the "free association" of nations which pledge their allegiance to the British Crown. A major difference with the American model, however, would arguably be the promise

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