PRELIM: RIZAL Flashcards
a Philippine law that
requires all schools in the Philippines, both public
and private, to offer courses on the life, works,
and writing
Rizal Law or RA 1425
On April 3, 1956Senator Claro M. Recto proposed
Senate Bill No. 438 and submitted it to the Senate
Committee on Education.
Senate Bill No. 438, titled
“An Act to Make Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo Compulsory Reading Matter
in All Public and Private Colleges and Universities and for
other Purposes,”
who was
then the Chairman of the Committee on Education,
sponsored the Noli-Fili Bill in the Senate and presented it
to the Upper House.
On April 17, 1956, Senator Jose P. Laurel, Sr.
Among the 333 pages of Noli Me Tangere, only
25
passages are nationalistic while 120 passages are
anti-Catholic.
________ lines from Noli Me Tangere and ________ lines in El
Filibusterismo were offensive to Catholic doctrine
170 and 50
THESE CATHOLIC GROUPS ORGANIZED OPPOSITION TO THE BILL:
Catholic Action of the Philippines
● Congregation of the Mission
● Knights of Columbus
● Catholic Teachers Guild
On April 19, 1956, Congressman
Jacobo Z.
Gonzales filed a similar bill called House Bill No.
5561
1 Instead of only Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, the new substitute bill now
includes
a wider range of works and writings by
Jose Rizal.
3 The implementation of reading unexpurgated
versions of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
will only be for c
college or university students
not censored or edited to
remove offensive or objectionable content or
to remove or censor offensive or
objectionable content, especially from a text
Unexpurgated
On May 12, 1956 and May 14, 1956, Senate Bill No. 438
and House Bill No. 5561 were both
unanimously approved
the bill was signed into law by
President Ramon Magsaysay, giving birth to
Republic Act
1425 or the Rizal Law
On June 12, 1956,.
The first section of the law concerns
mandating the
students to read Rizal’s novels.
The second section of the law requires the schools to
have
a sufficient number of copies of unexpurgated
editions of the novels in their libraries.
The third section of the law aims to make Rizal’s writings
more readily available to
the general public by promoting
their printing at an affordable cost, or in some cases,
providing them for free
The fourth section of the law clarifies
it will not change a
specific section of the Administrative Code that prohibits
public school teachers from discussing religious doctrines.
The fifth section of the law authorizes the
unallocated
funds to be used to implement the act.
The term modernity emphasizes the break from
traditional ways of life. and the emergence of new ideas,
attitudes, and institutions that marked the transition to a
new era.
Various political revolutions also happened during the
late
18th and 19th Century.
Early Philippine merchants traded with various
countries, including
China, Japan, Siam,
Cambodia, India, Borneo, and the Moluccas.
The Spanish Crown saw an opportunity to profit
from this trade and eventually closed the ports of
Manila to all countries except Mexico.
Hence, the birth of the Manila-Acapulco Trade.
o Also known as
Galleon Trade.
Spain became a
mercantilist superpower
By the late 18th century, the Galleon system
faced tough competition as other nations became
self-sufficient and preferred direct trade
the
Galleon Trade was ended by decree during the first
decade of
the 19th century
Because the Galleon Trade ended, the Philippines needed
a
a commercial purpose
The economic opportunities created by the Industrial
Revolution encouraged Spain in
1834 to open the
Philippine economy to world commerce.
