Code of Citizenship and Ethics

Question 1

What is the objectives of the lesson?

Answer 1

To prepare the ROTC Cadets into a united, patriotic, God-fearing and contented citizenry

Question 2

When was Code of Ethics promulgated and who was the president to do it?

Answer 2

August 19, 1939 , Pres. Manuel L Quezon through Executive Order No. 217

Question 3

This “Code of Ethics” is not to foster exaggerated nationalism, or to glorify narrow and blind patriotism. Its object is higher, purer, nobler.

Answer 3

It is to strengthen the moral fiber of our youth; to keep alive in the hearts of our citizens the value of ethical principles; and to proclaim the truth that moral discipline is the only sure road to national greatness.

Question 4

What are the code of ethics? (16)

Answer 4

Have Faith in Divine Providence
Love Your Country
Respect the Constitution
Pay Your Taxes
Safeguard the Purity of Suffrage
Love and Respect Your Parents
Value your Honor
Be truthful and honest in thought and action
Lead a clean and frugal life
Live up to the noble traditions of our people
Be industrious
Rely on your own efforts
Do your work cheerfully, thoroughly, and well
Contribute to the welfare of your community
Cultivate the habit of using goods made in the Philippines
Use and develop our natural resources

Question 5

• guides the destines of men and nation
• As a nation, the Filipinos demonstrated unity of belief in one Supreme Ruler as much as oneness of political purpose.
• Religious tolerance is necessary so that there may be peace among men and nations. (Article III, section 1, paragraph 7, Constitution)

Answer 5

Have Faith in Divine Providence

Question 6

• for it is the home of your people, the seat of your affections…. Its defense is your primary duty. Be ready at all times to sacrifice and die for it if necessary.
• Service to the country is our inescapable obligation “and in the fulfilment of this duty all citizens may be required by law to render personal military or civil service” (Section 2, Article II, Philippine Constitution)
• It is not an occasional virtue to be exhibited now and then, but it is a flame that should constantly be kept aglow in our hearts.

Answer 6

Love Your Country

Question 7

• expression of your sovereign will. Obey the laws
• Laws are observed by the whole community, that the officers of the law attend to their enforcement and properly perform their duties.
• Citizens should participate not only in the privileges but also in the duties of citizenship.

Answer 7

Respect the Constitution

Question 8

• willingly and promptly. Citizenship implies not only rights but also obligations
  Taxes are needed to defray the cost of public administration, law enforcement and dispensation of justice; national defense, and the promotion of social justice

Answer 8

Pay Your Taxes

Question 9

• abide by the decisions of the majority
  -Suffrage is a public and social duty which should not be neglected.
• To preserve the integrity of elections, penalties for offenses against the ballot have been prescribed.

Answer 9

Safeguard the Purity of Suffrage

Question 10

• it is your duty to serve them gratefully and well
• Nobody is more faithful and devoted to us, more sensitive of our needs, more generous to our failings, than our parents.
• By respecting our elders and by loving and helping our brothers and sisters, we reflect honor and credit to our parents.

Answer 10

Love and Respect Your Parents

Question 11

• Poverty with honor is preferable to wealth with dishonor
• Honor is what prompts a man to strive for all that is noble, true, and lofty, in word and in deed.
• “A good name is rather to be desired than great riches, and loving favor than silver and gold.”

Answer 11

Value your Honor

Question 12

• Be just and charitable, courteous but dignified, in your dealings with your fellowmen
• We should not only tell thetruthbut we should also welcome it.
• It is simple courtesy and not slavishness for the people to show respect and consideration for the men whom they themselves have elevated to high positions in the government.

Answer 12

Be truthful and honest in thought and action

Question 13

• do not indulge in frivolity or pretense. Be simple and modest
• Cleanliness is next to godliness. Life is more than a gift,-it is a trust which we must not abuse.
• Frugality means the simple life—both physically and morally. In its material aspect, it means bodily health and conservation of wealth and energy.

Answer 13

Lead a clean and frugal life

Question 14

• Venerate the memory of our heroes. Their lives point the way of duty and honor.
• We must use discrimination and prudence in adopting foreign models.
• With virility and courage and with unswerving resolve, we must safeguard our magnificent national heritage, for our future lies not in slavish imitations of foreign ideals but in our native qualities, and in the “composite voices of our great heroes that once trod our soil.”

Answer 14

Live up to the noble traditions of our people

Question 15

• be not ashamed to do manual labor for economic security and adds wealth to the nation
• Labor leads the mind of men to serious things; it sharpens the mind of men by study;
• Only by hard and sustained work can men and nations live and survive.

Answer 15

Be industrious

Question 16

• be not easily discouraged for your progress and happiness. Persevere
• Our life is what we make it. If we are to succeed, it is necessary that we possess self-reliance, courage, and perseverance, for out of these qualities, new strength is born which will enable us to overcome adversities and conquer difficulties.

Answer 16

Rely on your own efforts

Question 17

• Work badly done is worse than work undone. Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today
• A nation of energetic and busy people, a people working cheerfully and thoroughly….
• Only by adopting a correct attitude towards our work and giving ourselves wholeheartedly to the proper fulfilment of our duties shall we be able to give full play to whatever talent is given us and justify our existence in this world.

Answer 17

Do your work cheerfully, thoroughly, and well

Question 18

• and promote social justice. You do not live for yourselves because you are part of a society.
• The individual lives not for himself and for his family alone. His life is a community life. He has, therefore, larger interests to serve.
• It is our duty to help in the promotion of social justice so that every Filipino may have the opportunity to acquire, through toil, his necessities in food, clothing and shelter…

Answer 18

Contribute to the welfare of your community

Question 19

• Patronize the products and trades of your countrymen
• It is important that we develop our local industries with the aim in view of diminishing our imports…
• Our extensive and continued patronage of these local products will help bolster our infant industries and lead to national economic self-sufficiency.

Answer 19

Cultivate the habit of using goods made in the Philippines

Question 20

• and conserve them for prosperity. They are the inalienable heritage of our people.
• Real freedom must go hand in hand with economic stability, if not economic prosperity.
• Our natural resources are primarily for the Filipinos.

Answer 20

Use and develop our national resources