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Republic Act 1425 (Autosaved)
Republic Act 1425 (Autosaved)
1425: Rizal
Law
What is RA 1425?
• The bill was headedly opposed by three senators namely Senator Francisco Rodrigo
who was a former Catholic Action President, Senator Mariano Cuenco and Senator
Decoroso Rosales who was the brother of Julio Rosales, an archbishop.
• Other supporters of the bill were Mayor Arsenio Lacson call anti-rizal bill “bigoted
and intolerant” and walked out of a mass when the priest read a pastoral letter from
the Archbishop denouncing the Rizal Bill and General Emilio Aguinaldo with groups
like the Knights of Rizal, Women Writers of the Verrnacular, Philippine Veterans
Legion, Colleger Editors’ Guild and Philippine School Teachers’ Association.
• Recto told them that if they did, the State could nationalize the catholic
schools. When there was a proposal to use the expurgated novels as
textbooks and put the original copies under lock and key in the school
libraries, Recto rejected this amendment and expressed:
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“The people who would eliminate the books of Rizal
from the schools…would bot out from our minds the
memory of the national hero…this is not a fight against
Recto but a fight against Rizal…now that Rizal is dead
and they can no longer attempt at his life, they are
attempting to blot out his memory.”
• Senator Lim suggested the exemption to those students who feel that reading Rizal’s
novels would negatively affect his or her faith. Senator Primicias created an additional
amendment that promulgates the rules and regulations in getting an exemption only
from reading the two novels through written statement or affidavit and not from
taking the Rizal Course. According to historian Ambeth Ocampo, no student has ever
availed of this exemption. After the revised amendments, the bill was finally passed
on May 17, 1956 and was signed into law as Republic Act 1425 by President Ramon
Magsaysay on June 12 of the same year.
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Jose Rizal Law – Republic Act 1425 Full Text
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 52, No. 6, p. 2971 in June 1956.
• The law was sponsored by Sen. Jose P. Laurel and Sen. Claro
M. Recto and was enacted in June 12, 1956.