Apolinario Mabini (July 23,1864- May 13, 1903) was a Filipino theoretician who wrote the constitution for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first prime minister in 1899. Early 1896, he contracted an illness, probably infantile paralysis, that led to the paralysis of his lower limbs. When the revolution broke out the same year, the Spanish authorities, suspecting that he was somehow involved in the disturbance, arrested him.
Mabini, it must be noted, was not entirely free from nationalistic association, for he was a member of Rizal's La Liga Filipina and worked secretly for the introduction of reforms in the administration of government. Mabini was most active in the revolution in 1898, when he became the chief adviser of General Aguinaldo. He drafted decrees and created drafts for the first constitution and the framework of the revolutionary government which was implemented in Malolos in 1899.
Mabini, it must be noted, was not entirely free from nationalistic association, for he was a member of Rizal's La Liga Filipina and worked secretly for the introduction of reforms in the administration of government. Mabini was most active in the revolution in 1898, when he became the chief adviser of General Aguinaldo. He drafted decrees and created drafts for the first constitution and the framework of the revolutionary government which was implemented in Malolos in 1899.
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