 It was a framework for a "more autonomous government", with certain privileges reserved to the United States to protect its sovereign rights and interests, in preparation for the grant of independence by the United States.The law provides that the grant of independence would come only "as soon as a stable government can be established", which was to be determined by the United States Government itself.The law also changed the Philippine Legislature into the Philippines' first fully elected body and therefore made it more autonomous of the U.S. Government.