ASSIGNMENT

IN
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SUBMITTED BY:
MARY JANE OROBILLO
SUBMITTED TO:

Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as

being a member of a country. A person may have multiple citizenships and a
person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless.
1. Who are classified as Philippine citizens?
Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Article IV, Section 1, it states that:
Section 1The following are citizens of the Philippines:
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 of law

2. What are the modes in acquiring Philippine citizenship?

There are two (2) generally recognized forms of acquiring Philippine
citizenship:

1. Filipino by birth
1. Jus soli (right of soil) which is the legal principle that a
persons nationality at birth is determined by the place of
birth (e.g. the territory of a given state)
2. Jus sanguinis (right of blood) which is the legal principle
that, at birth, an individual acquires the nationality of
his/her natural parent/s. The Philippine adheres to this
principle.
2. Filipino by naturalization which is the judicial act of adopting a
foreigner and clothing him with the privileges of a native-born
citizen. It implies the renunciation of a former nationality and the

fact of entrance into a similar relation towards a new body politic

(2Am.Jur.561,par.188).

3. I am a natural born Filipino who was naturalized in another

country; can I re-acquire my Filipino citizenship without losing
current my citizenship?
Former natural-born Filipino who has been naturalized in another country
who wishes to retain or re-acquire their Philippine citizenship may apply for
Retention/Re-acquisition of Philippine Citizenship pursuant to RA 9225.

4. Can I include my dependents for my application of RA 9225?

Children below 18 years of age may be included as dependents to your
application for RA 9225.

5. I am a foreign national with a Filipino parent; can I apply for a

Filipino citizenship?
Foreign nationals who were born outside of the Philippines to a Filipino
parent (Note: the parent/s must be Philippine citizen/s at the time of the
applicants birth) may apply for Recognition as a Filipino citizen, without
losing the current citizenship of the applicant.

NATION-BUILDING
Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the
state.[1] It is thus narrower than what Paul James calls "nation formation", the broad
process through which nations come into being.[2] Nation-building aims at the unification
of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long
run. According to Harris Mylonas, "Legitimate authority in modern national states is
connected to popular rule, to majorities. Nation-building is the process through which
these majorities are constructed."[3]
Nation builders are those members of a state who take the initiative to develop the
national community through government programs, including military conscription and
national content mass schooling.[4][5] Nation-building can involve the use of propaganda
or major infrastructure development to foster social harmony and economic growth.

Nation Building
Proceeding from its identity and mission, the Ateneo de Manila cannot insulate or
disengage itself from the crucial struggle of our time: the struggle for faith and that
struggle for justice which it includes. Without losing its identity and mission as a Jesuit
school and apostolic institute, the Ateneo de Manila commits itself to rebuilding our
nation with others when it confronts the social problems of poverty and conflict in which
our people are mired.
There are those who hold that an Ateneo education is already our contribution to nation
building, that the Ateneo way of forming those who will one day lead and make a
difference in the life of our people is itself our role in building the nation.
While this is true and good, we can be more. With our institutional presence and power,
we can place ourselves at the service of those strategic agencies that have always been
instrumental to the life and development of this nation. These institutions will be found
working at the local and national levels, in all the three sectors of civil society (including
the Church), government, and the private sector.
Our institutional service here can be in the form of research (e.g. policy development,
culture dialogue, program evaluation, etc), capacity building (e.g. training), technical
assistance, and/or advocacy.
In recent years, the sectoral areas of strategic engagement of the University seem to have
been in the following:

education reform
local community development
health care reform
leader formation
enterprise (livelihood) development

Whatever strategic sector we decide to continue or take, I suggest three roles the
University can play in nation-building. These three roles are as change catalysts, strategic
thinkers, and as culture shapers:

as change catalysts: we can better serve society as facilitators rather than as the
main actors of social development. Our primary and direct action is mainly in education.
In other social sectors, it is better for us as an institution to enable the mobilization and
convergence of various actors in society. If our intervention in a community or institution
is to be direct, it is always with a view to making social templates that can be eventually
replicated and multiplied by others.

as strategic thinkers: our place in higher education is to help society do some

higher-order thinking on the complex, culture-bound, non-linear mechanisms and systems
that perpetuate the collective burden of poverty and conflict. Understanding these, we can
help propose systemic solutions that are hopefully effective and lasting. On this, it is also
imperative for a higher education institution such as ours to plot the long-term, wider
impact of national and global currents on local communities.
as culture shapers: we are in the business of changing mindsets and converting lives.
As I shared in the Rizal sesquicentennial celebration, we cannot build what we do not
love. And we cannot love what is not ours. A privileged role then for us as a school is to
cultivate love of country. Only by defining and strengthening our national identity will
we be able to participate meaningfully on the global track of development. This will
demand new work on expanding our notion of nation and nationalism in view of the
Filipino diaspora. In cultivating this love of country, the humanities and the arts play an
instrumental part.