INTRODUCTION TO

RIZAL’S LIFE AND WORKS

AND THE RIZAL LAW
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
AT THE END OF THE LESSON, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

1 . EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE SUBJECT RIZAL’S LIFE AND WORKS

2. DISCUSS THE RIZAL LAW
3. NARRATE HOW THE RIZAL BILL BECOMES A LAW.
WHY STUDY THE LIFE AND WORKS
OF RIZAL
 1. FIRST AND
FOREMOST, BECAUSE
IT IS MANDATED BY
THE LAW.
 2. TO REDEDICATE
THE LIVES OF YOUTH
TO THE IDEALS OF
FREEDOM AND
NATIONALISM, FOR
"WHICH OURHEROES
LIVED AND DIED.”
 3. TO RECOGNIZE THE
IMPORTANCE OF
RIZAL’S IDEALS AND
TEACHINGS IN
RELATION TO PRESENT
CONDITIONS AND
SITUATIONS IN THE
SOCIETY.
 4. TO ENCOURAGE THE
APPLICATION OF SUCH
IDEALS IN CURRENT
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
PROBLEMS AND ISSUES.
 5. TO DEVELOP AN
APPRECIATION AND
DEEPER
UNDERSTANDING OF
ALL THAT RIZAL
FOUGHT AND DIED
FOR.
THE RIZAL LAW
OVERVIEW OF RIZAL LAW
• THE RIZAL LAW OR THE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425 IS A PHILIPPINE LAW
THAT MANDATES ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
PHILIPPINES TO OFFER COURSES ABOUT JOSÉ RIZAL.

• THE RIZAL LAW, IN ANY CASE, WAS EMPHATICALLY RESTRICTED BY

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES, MUCH APPRECIATED TO
THE ANTI-CLERICAL SUBJECTS THAT WERE PERTINENT IN RIZAL'S
BOOKS NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO.
AUTHORS OF
RIZAL LAW
• SENATOR CLARO M. RECTO AND
SENATOR JOSE P LAUREL WERE
THE PROPONENTS OF THE RIZAL
BILL. HE SOUGHT TO SPONSOR
THE BILL AT CONGRESS.
HOWEVER, THIS WAS MET WITH
STIFF OPPOSITION FROM THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH.

• DURING THE 1955 SENATE

ELECTION, THE CHURCH CHARGED
RECTO WITH BEING A COMMUNIST
AND AN ANTI-CATHOLIC.
OPPOSITION IN
THE RIZAL BILL
• IN THE CAMPAIGN TO OPPOSE THE
RIZAL BILL, THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH URGED ITS ADHERENTS
TO WRITE TO THEIR CONGRESSMEN
AND SENATORS SHOWING THEIR
OPPOSITION TO THE BILL .

• THE ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA,

RUFINO SANTOS, PROTESTED IN A
PASTORAL LETTER THAT CATHOLIC
STUDENTS WOULD BE AFFECTED IF
COMPULSORY READING OF THE
UNEXPURGATED VERSION WERE
PUSHED THROUGH.
RIZAL BILL TO
RIZAL LAW
• THE REPUBLIC ACT 1425 OR THE
RIZAL LAW WAS SIGNED ON
JUNE 12, 1956 WITH THE
SPONSORSHIP OF CLARO M.
RECTO. HE BELIEVED THAT
RIZAL IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF
NATIONALISM IN THE
PHILIPPINES AND WAS SHOWED
THROUGH HIS LIFE, WORKS AND
WRITINGS.
MANDATES OF
RIZAL LAW
COURSES ON THE LIFE, WORKS
AND WRITINGS OF JOSE RIZAL,
PARTICULARLY HIS NOVEL NOLI
ME TANGERE AND EL
FILIBUSTERISMO, SHALL BE
INCLUDED IN THE CURRICULA OF
ALL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC OR
PRIVATE.
MAIN SOURCES:
• JOSE RIZAL, LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS OF A GENIUS,
WRITER, SCIENTIST AND NATIONAL HERO, GREGORIO
ZAIDE, NATIONAL BOOKSTORE, 2003
• THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSE RIZAL, RHODALYN OBIAS,
AARON ABLE MALLARI & JANEL REGUINDIN-ESTELLA, C
& E PUBLISHING, 2018
• HTTPS://WWW.OFFICIALGAZETTE.GOV.PH/1956/06/12/
REPUBLIC-ACT-NO-1425/
• HTTPS://WWW.ELCOMBLUS.COM/FILIPINO-SOCIAL-THINKERS-
CLARO-M-RECTO/
• HTTPS://ANGBUHAYNIJPRIZAL.WORDPRESS.COM/THE-RIZAL-
LAW/
END OF PRESENTATION
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