Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903) was a Filipino

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 political philosopher

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 and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first prime minister

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 in 1899. In Philippine history texts, he is often referred to as "the Sublime Paralytic", and as "the Brains of the Revolution." To his enemies and detractors, he is referred to as the "Dark Chamber of the President."
Mabini was born on July 23, 1864 in Barangay Talaga in Tanauan

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, Batangas

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