Pulse Survey (2018) Knowledge of the Filipino people on the 1987 constitution
little knowledge
PH is the ____ most ignorant on key issues but among ‘most confident survey (ABS-CBN news)
3rd
What are 4 qualities of nation according to Benedict Anderson
- Imagined
- Community
- Limited
- Sovereign
According to Andrew Heywood, the belief is the central principle of political organization based on what two assumptions?
- human kind is naturally divided into distinct nations
- the nation is the most appropriate, and perhaps only legitimate unit of political rule
What is Culture (Atienza et. al)
A set of beliefs, ideas, values, practices, knowledge, history, and shared experiences, attitudes, and material objects and possessions accumulated over time and shared by the society
Someone with legal rights in a state
Citizen
What is a Citizen according to Aristotle
Someone who participates in the political life of the state
“Citizens are made, not born,” quote by who?
William Henry Seward
Thin model/liberal democratic model
- citizenships as basic memberships of the nation-state carries rights to freedom, redress and political participations
- These rights have often been won through bloody struggle by members of the group excluded partially or fully from citizenship status
Article IV Section 1 States that the following are the citizens of the philippines:
1) time of adoption of those constitution
2) fathers/mothers are citizens
3) born before Jan 17, 1973 of filipino mothers who elect philippines citizenship upon reaching the age of majority
4) neutralized in accordance with law
How to make a citizen?
- Deliberative democracy
- difference democracy
- different perspectives
- different groups
- plurality of spheres
- post-national/cosmopolitan
- supranational-levels - regional/global
How to get deliberative democracy?
- talk
- dialogue
- reasoning together
- making decisions
- reflecting together
12 Things To Help Our Country by Atty. Alex Lacson
1) Follow traffic rules
2) Always ask for an OR (Original receipt)
3) Buy local, buy filipino
4) Speak positively about the filiipino and our country
5) Respect your traffic officer, policeman, and other public servants
6) Plant a tree, segregate, recycle, and conserve and CLEAGO
7) Support your church
8) During election, do your solemn duty
9) Pay your employees well
10) Pay your taxes
11) Adopt a scholar/poor child
12) Be a good parent, Teach your kids to love our country
