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FOREWORD In 1939, Raul S. Manglapus delivered an oration at an inter-university oratorical contest entitled "Land Of Bondage, Land Of The Free." President Manuel L. Quezon, who was present as the guest of honor, was deeply impressed by it. The oration has now become a classic. Manglapus indicted a system which kept the tao in political and economic bondage in spite of constitutional assurances of liberty. In his peroration, he foretold an aimed peasant revolution if the causes of discontent which he had enumerated were, not promptly removed. The causes were not removed. Six years later his...

Raul S. Manglapus was born in Manila. He completed his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude. at the Ateneo de Manila in 1939 and pursued his study of law at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila and at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. From 1948 to 1954 he was Professor of Constitutional Law at the College of Law of the Ateneo de Manila. Manglapus served in the Cabinet in 1954 as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, and later in 1957, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs. In 1961 he was elected Senator of the Philippines with the highest number of votes. His term of office ends in 1967, after...