Can Filipinos Hold on to Their Democracy?

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fter Spain ceded the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, to the United States in 1898, President William McKinley "envisioned the Philippines as an American protectorate or an American colony," according to archives of the U.S. House of Representatives. "Like many people on the mainland, he [McKinley] believed Filipinos were incapable of self-government and did not want another foreign power to take over the islands."