RIZAL LAW & NATIONALISM

Rizal Law or RA 1425

Mandates all educational institutions in the Philippines to teach the life, works, and writings of Jose Rizal

Senator Claro M. Recto

Who filed the Senate Bill No. 438 making the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo compulsory reading in all public and private colleges and universities?

April 3, 1956

When did the senator file the Rizal Law or Senate Bill 438?

Sen. Jose P. Laurel

• Who sponsored and supported the Bill?

• He also helped defend the viability and practicality of having the bill enacted into law

May 12, 1956

When was the bill approved unanimously?

June 12, 1956

When was the law finally enacted?

Nationalism

• is a set of systems - political, social, and economic - characterized by the promotion of interests of one nation anchored on the aim to achieve and maintain self-governance or total sovereignty.

Culture, History, Language, Religion and Teritory

The basic characteristics/elements of nationalism:

Conservative View

• looks at nationalism at the perspective of primordialism or a sentiment and set of beliefs that have been part of a specific place or territory’s lineage

• Nationalism is grounded on the preservation of an existing nation which binds the people against invaders or new influences

Constructivist View

• best understood by first looking into the term nation

• “Nations are products of history and human agreement; they can change depending on how people define and experience them”

Johann Herder and Edmund Burke

Theorist of Conservative View

Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm

Theorists for Constructivist View