CITIZENSHIP

EXERCISE:What I Know“FACT or BLUFF”

Write the FACT if you find the statement to be true and BLUFF if thestatement is false.
________________1. A citizen is a member of democratic community who enjoys
full civic and political rights.
________________2. Citizen in the Philippines have narrow or limited opportunities
for participation.
________________3. A citizen has a rights but can neglect some social
responsibilities.
________________4. The principle of citizenship recognizes that people have a
moral responsibility only for others and community.
________________5. Citizenship is democratic.
________________6. Citizens can be apathetic, self-centered or ideological depending to their self-
environment orientation.
________________7. The Philippine government ensure that citizens are active,
critical, tolerant and responsible.
________________8. Citizen participation may be undertaken only in community
level through community development.
________________9. An ordinary citizen may have a political participation by being
vigilant and make public officials accountable to the people.
________________10. Good citizenship are manifestations of solidarity towards
attainment of the common good.
 Who are considered Citizens of the
Philippines?
In 1987 Philippine constitution, article IV about Citizenship,
Section 1.Citizens of the Philippines are the following:
[1] Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of
the adoption of this Constitution;
[2] Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the
Philippines;
[3] Those born before January 17, 1973, of Filipino
mothers, who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching
the age of majority; and
[4] Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.
Who are considered Citizens of the
Philippines?
 Section 2 states that the Natural-born citizens
are those who are citizens of the Philippines
from birth without having to perform any act to
acquire or perfect their Philippine citizenship.
Citizenship by birth have two categories,
1. Jus Soli or loci is determined by place of birth
while
2. Jus Sanguinis is determined byblood relations.
 Who are considered Citizens of the
Philippines?
 The key element in citizenship is an in-depth
understanding of an individual’s
environment, backgrounds, and nature as a
member.
De Leon, 1997
 states, the term citizenship denotes
membership in a political society.
(De Leon,1997)
 The membership implies a duty of allegiance
on the part of the member and a duty of
protection on the part of the state.
 A citizen, on the other hand, refers to a
member of a democratic community who
enjoys full civil and political rights and is
accorded protection inside and outside the
territory of the state.
 The Philippines is a democratic community its citizens exercise rights and
perform duties and responsibilities in different levels and in different
reasons whether it is personal or communal.
 These degree of participation with behind reasons greatly affects the
civic engagement addressing public concerns.
 Problems can be fully solved if the government and its citizens worked
together
for the common goals.
 The highest level of citizen participation happens when the people has
the dominant decisions over the government.
 Nowadays, efforts of the government to protect its citizen as stipulated in
Article 2 Section 5: “The maintenance of peace and order, the
protection of life, liberty, and property, and promotion of the general
welfare are essential for the enjoyment by all the people of the
blessings of democracy”, are far from the expectation of its citizen due to
personal agendas of many politicians.
According to SWS Surveys on Good Local
Governance (based on 2009),

Local government enjoys a more favorable

public support from household heads nationwide
with a Good net satisfaction rating tt44.

This means participation can be fully realized if

the government exercises their duties and
allegiance in support for the people and vice-
versa.
 The civil society plays an important role in Philippine
democracy if the citizens recognize the principle of
citizenship. It is a moral responsibility to self, others and
community. This moral responsibility has to be matched and
expressed with social responsibility in the same way as
individual rights have to be matched with social
responsibility (Melegrito and Mendoza,2016).

 This means a citizen must be liable and act according to

what is right and due to himself/herself, to a person, or to
the community towards the attainment of
 THINK ABOUT IT!

 How would you classify yourself as a

good citizen and why?
 How would you become a good
citizen?
 How could you contribute to the civil
society as a good citizen?
 THE GOOD CITIZEN:
 Rosenau (1997) classified citizen according to
individual’s self environment orientation.

1. Self-centered citizens - tend to ignore the needs of others

and only do what’s best for them.
2. Apathetic citizens - on the other hand is showing lack of
feeling or interest, in participating activities.Insensitive and
lack a sense of purpose while an act is being done. Most of
the time apathetic citizen is passive.
3. Ideological citizens - based the act on the society’s
common beliefs, norms, and participation. This person takes
sides based on the majority decisions as a safe haven to act.
4. Democratic citizens -have a list of good qualities and
 QUALITIES OF GOOD CITIZEN:
 Galston (1991) listed four types of civic virtues of citizen that
are required for a flourishing democracy.
1. General virtues (courage,law-abidingness, loyalty),
2. Social virtues (independence; open-mindedness),
3. Economic virtues (work ethic; capacity to delay work
gratification; adaptability to
economic and technological change, and
4. Political virtues (capacity to discern and respect the rights of
others, willingness to demand only what can be paid for; ability
to evaluate the performance and willingness to discourse.
A blog journal posted by Fabrega introduced 10 ways to
show good
citizenship.
 This can also be helpful in strengthening one’s qualities.
1.A good citizen is patriotic, it is being proud to the
country, its cultural values and identity.
2.Modeling good qualities, one’s people sees it they
might follow it, then it channeled to one person to
another.
3.Be productive, it makes positive contribution not to
oneself but to the society.
4.Be informed, remember that knowledge is power
5.Be vigilant, to ascertain that government is doing well.
6.Be socially active, participation to solve the problem
 Active Citizenship
 Active citizenship is someone who takes a role
in the community (Tisch,2010). With the issues
confronting the society active participation is
important. It’s an old saying the body cannot fully
function without its parts. Therefore, every citizen
must uphold the law and perform its duties and
responsibilities supporting the governments good
projects or programs to achieve common goals.
 This is not actually not hard for us Filipinos’ because it is our
inherent characteristics based on the concept of
pakikipagkapwa (holistic interaction of others) and
kapwa (shared innerself). A sense of having common
identity, belongingness, the togetherness and not being
alone. One’s empathy to others makes the kawanggawa
(charity) and the basis of many groups or organizations
specially NGO’s. Where had a great impact in civic
participation.
 As Chinese philosopher Confucius once said the following:
“To put the world inorder, we must first put the nation
in order; to put the nation in order, we must
 first put the family in order; to put the family in
order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we
must first set our hearts right.” So start to engage and
participate.
Activity 3: The Elephant and Six Blind Men
Objective: To explain the importance of active citizenship in different
perspective.
Directions: Read the and analyze the story.