The statutes,
shelf by shelf.
Each collection is one issuing body: what Congress passed, what the President decreed, what the agencies filed. Pick a shelf, then a year and a month.
Start with the ConstitutionsFrom the legislature
What Congress and its predecessors enacted.
Republic ActsThe statutes Congress has passed since the Republic. The e-Library files the Constitutions and implementing rules here too, so they are in this count.ActsThe Acts of the Philippine Commission and the Philippine Legislature, from the American period.Commonwealth ActsWhat the National Assembly passed under the Commonwealth, between 1935 and independence.Batas PambansaThe acts of the Batasang Pambansa, 1978 to 1985 — the Corporation Code and the Judiciary Act among them.
From the executive
What the President and the agencies issued.
Presidential DecreesLaw made by the President under martial law — much of it still in force today.Executive OrdersHow the President orders the executive branch to act.Administrative OrdersRules on particular matters of administration, issued from the Palace.ProclamationsDeclarations fixing a date, a holiday, a reservation of land or a state of affairs.Memorandum CircularsInstructions of general application to the executive branch.Memorandum OrdersOrders on matters of administration addressed to a particular office.National Administrative RegisterWhat every agency files with the UP Law Center: the rules that run the country day to day.