Malolos Congress

{{Short description|Legislative body of the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Use Philippine English|date=April 2023}}

{{Infobox legislature

| name = Malolos Congress

| native_name = Congreso de Malolos
Congreso Revolucionario

| coa_pic = Malolos congress.jpg

| coa_res =

| coa_caption =

| legislature =

| house_type = Unicameral

| houses =

| members = 136{{efn|name=agoncillo193|In the book Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic by Teodoro Agoncillo, the Malolos Congress had 193 delegates (42 elected and 151 appointed).{{Cite book |last=Agoncillo |first=Teodoro A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnxvAAAACAAJ |title=Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic |publisher=University of the Philippines Press |year=1897 |isbn=978-971-542-096-9 |pages=224 and Appendix F (pp,658–663)}}}}

| meeting_place = Barasoain Church

| foundation = {{nowrap|September 15, 1898}}

| disbanded = November 13, 1899

| preceded_by = Cortes of Cádiz
Ayuntamiento

| succeeded_by = Taft Commission

| footnotes =

| leader1 = Pedro Paterno

| leader1_type = President of the National Assembly

| leader2 = Benito Legarda

| leader2_type = Vice President of the National Assembly

}}

The Malolos Congress ({{langx|es|Congreso de Malolos}}), also known as the Revolutionary Congress ({{langx|es|Congreso Revolucionario}}){{Cite book |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=philamer;iel=1;view=toc;idno=aab1246.0001.001 |title=The Laws of the First Philippine Republic (the laws of Malolos) 1898–1899 |publisher=University of Michigan Library |year=2005 |editor-last=Guevara |editor-first=Sulpico |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |publication-date=1972 |pages=[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/aab1246.0001.001/55?rgn=full+text 37-38] |chapter=Decree of June 23, 1898 establishing the Revolutionary Government |access-date=February 9, 2021 |chapter-url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/aab1246.0001.001/53?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image}}. (English translation by Sulpicio Guevara) and formally the National Assembly, was the legislative body of the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines.

From 1898 to 1899, prior to the Philippine Declaration of Independence and their gathering at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan, for the drafting of the Malolos Constitution, congressional delegates used the Malolos station at the Malolos town center.{{cite news |last1=Velasco |first1=Shane |title=Panandang pangkasaysayan inilagak sa dating PNR train station sa Malolostrans-title=Marker of Malolos Station unveiled|url=https://pia.gov.ph/panandang-pangkasaysayan-inilagak-sa-dating-pnr-train-station-sa-malolos/|trans-title=Marker of Malolos Station unveiled |accessdate=February 3, 2025 |work= Presidential Communications Group|date=February 1, 2025}}

Members were chosen in the elections held from June 23 to September 10, 1898. The assembly consisted of elected delegates chosen by balloting in provincial assemblies and appointed delegates chosen by the president to represent regions under unstable military and civilian conditions. The Revolutionary Congress was opened on September 15, 1898. President Emilio Aguinaldo presided over the opening session of the assembly.

After the promulgation of the Malolos Constitution on January 22, 1899, replaced the revolutionary government with the Philippine Republic,{{efn|Now commonly referred to as the First Philippine Republic; see the Philippine Republic article for further info.}} the Malolos Congress became the legislative branch of that government, designated in the constitution as the Assembly of Representatives.[https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/the-philippine-constitutions/the-1899-malolos-constitution The 1899 Malolos Constitution in Spanish with a side-by-side English translation] (Article 33)