POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

CABIAO CAMPUS
FINAL EXAMINATION

GEED 20023 : Philippine Politics, Governance, and Citizenship

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I. IDENTIFICATION
Identify the terms and concepts described below. Write your answers on the space provided
before the number.
1. It refers to “those who are citizens of the Philippines from birth without having to
perform any act to acquire or perfect their Philippine citizenship”
2. It is a “term denoting membership of a citizen in a political society”
3. 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”
4. A foreigner in another country whose state has been dissolved due to anarchy or
revolution
5. A citizen of a country who is residing in or passing through another country”. He
enjoys civil rights but not political rights.
6. Under this principle, the blood of the parents is the basis for the acquisition of
citizenship and not the territory or the country where the baby was born.
7. Under this principle, the law of the soil or the place of birth determines the
citizenship of the child regardless of the citizenship or blood of one or both parents.
8. It is defined as an ‘act of formality adopting a foreigner into the political body of the
state and clothing him or her with rights and privilege of citizenship”
9. Person who are citizens by operation of law.
10. Refers to the act when a citizen gives up or losses his citizenship.
11. Lost citizenship may be reacquired and the act is known as ____________.
12. An organized group of individuals who agree on common political principles and
platforms in seeking to control the powers of government to serve national interest
and to enjoy the benefits derived from such control.
13. Refers to “the right and obligation to vote for qualified citizens in the election of
certain national and local officers of the government and in the decision of public
questions submitted to the people”
14. A process wherein innumerable number of public officials are selected by the
sovereign people at regular periods to exercise the political authority in the name of
the people and for the people.

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 15. It is the process by which the voters choose their officials for definite and fixed
terms as their duly chosen representatives in exercising their sovereign power in the
government.
16. The constitutional commission tasked by the constitution to conduct and supervise
elections
17. The process by which the people express their choice for or against a proposed law
or enactment submitted to them.
18. This is a process by which a law or part thereof passed by Congress or local
legislative body is presented to the voters for their ratification or reje
19. This is a process by which the people directly propose and enact new laws. This
requires a petition containing the proposed law or amendment of the constitution
and the required number of verified signatures of petitioners.
20. The process by which an elected official is removed from office during his/her
tenure by a vote of the people after registration of a petition signed by a required
percentage of the qualified voters.

II. MODIFIED MATCHING TYPE

Match the items in the box to the concepts /descriptions below. Write your answers on the
space provided before the number.

Two Party System Liberal Party Partido Nacionalista

Republic Act 7688 (1994). Women in Nation Building ARMM
Party List Law. Law. Republic Act 7192 IPRA
Pressure Groups 1996 Paternity Leave Act Certificate of Ancestral
Anti-Sexual Harassment Law. Lobbying Domain Title
Personal Organizations DATU NCIP
Peace Process. Partido Federalista Certificate of Ancestral Land
Community Intellectual National Commission on Title (CALT)
Rights. Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). The Bangsamoro
1988 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. ANCESTRAL DOMAIN

1. The law that recognized the rights of Indigenous peoples over their ancestral
domains.
2. The government agency which the above law gave jurisdiction of all ancestral
domain claims to including those previously awarded by the DENR and all future
claims that shall be
3. A political party in the Philippines in 1900 which advocated Philippine annexation to
the United States
4. A political party which championed immediate political independence.

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5. The political party under the two party system who assumed the role of the party in
power from 1946 to 1953 characterized as pragmatic and progressive.
6. A party system having two major parties in the state with nearly equal membership
and political strength.
7. A scheme of party alignment in which there are several parties in a state each with
their own membership, identity or label, ideology, programs and policies.
8. A type of party system where no opposition is allowed to challenge the hegemony
of the party in control of the government.
9. Personal machineries outside of the formal party organizations that are very active
during elections in helping the political party mobilize electoral support for its
candidates.
10. A private association formed to influence public policy.
11. A pressure group activity, the solicitation of legislative support for a bill under
consideration, which affects a pressure group.
12. Refers to all areas generally belonging to ICCs/IPs, subject to property rights
comprising lands, inland waters, coastal areas, and natural resources therein, held
under a claim of ownership, occupied or possessed by ICCs/IPs by themselves.
13. Refers to a title formally recognizing the rights of possession and ownership of
ICCs/IPs over their ancestral domains identified and delineated in accordance with
this law.
14. Refer to the rights of ICCs/IPs to own, control, develop and protect: (a) the past,
present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as but not limited to,
archeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies, visual
and performing arts and literature as well as religious and spiritual properties;
15. Refers to the office created under the Act, which shall be under the Office of the
President, and which shall be the primary government agency responsible for the
formulation and implementation of policies, plans and programs to recognize,
protect and promote the rights of ICCs/ IPs.
16. Provides for the creation of women-oriented or women-based parties to compete
under the party-list system. Women is one of the 9 sector identified in the law.
17. It is an act promoting the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in
development and nation building
18. A law which gave Filipino women the right to own land that previously reverted to
sons and other male family members
19. An act giving representation to women in social security commission.
20. Both of which acknowledge that children are both a parental and state responsibility
21. an act declaring sexual harassment unlawful in the employment, education or
training environment
22. a group of primarily Muslim provinces in the southern Philippines demanding for
independence from people in the historically separate and culturally different
region, to provide limited autonomy for the Moro (Muslim) people.

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 23. The poorest region in the Philippines, with the highest unemployment. Remote both
geographically and culturally from Metro Manila, the existing economy is primarily
agricultural.
24. The process concerned with setting up the major structural elements of the new
relationship between the Bangsamoro and the national government, with processes
relating to democracy and good governance
25. They represent nearly 14% of the country’s population. They are among the poorest
and the most disadvantaged social group in the country. Indigenous People

III. TRUE OR FALSE

Write T if the statement is correct and F if the statement is wrong. Write your answer on the
space provided before the number.
1. Both a stateless person and an alien are not subject to our laws.
2. The state also gives protection to resident aliens called foreigners or aliens passing through its
territory.
3. In jus sanguinis, the children follow the citizenship of their mother only.
4. In jus loci, when a child is born in any part of the territory of the country be it in aerial,
terrestrial, or maritime domain, he or she automatically becomes a citizen of that country.
5. Those who are considered citizens of the Philippines under the 1987 Constitution at the time of
the adoption of the new constitution on February 2, 1987 are citizens by operation of law.
6. Aliens or foreigners who acquired Filipino citizenship by applying and complying with all
requirements provided in the Philippine naturalization law are natural born citizens.
7. A foreigner can be conferred citizenship by a law enacted by Congress.
8. A person can still be a Filipino citizen even if s/he has become a green card holder or has
become an American.
9. A person losses his citizenship through a declaration by a competent authority of being a
deserter from the arm forces of another country.
10. Promotion of Individual welfare means the provision of such essential services such as
infrastructure development, health care and sanitation, education, economic progress and
stability and other equally important services conducive to general welfare.
11. Direct election is an act of choosing public officials by the representative of the people.
12. Suffrage is not a natural right but a privilege so it is mandatory to everyone to exercise this right.
13. Only citizens of the state have the right to exercise suffrage.
14. Suffrage was premised on the economic status of the voter. Today one of the requirements of
suffrage is ownership of land property.
15. Nowadays, candidate’s personal organization do most of the dirty works in the election
campaign.
16. Pressure groups are organized purposely to promote the welfare of their members only.
17. Although the ARMM government is autonomous, it is dependent upon the national allocations
for its operations.
18. Christian politicians from other regions are not interested to meddle in the ARMM politics, this
is because the number of Christian voters in the region is small.

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 19. The proposed Bangsamoro will be governed by a federal form of government.
20. All areas within ancestral domains, whether delineated or not, are presumed to be communally
owned and, pursuant to the indigenous concept of ownership, could be sold or disposed.
21. No ICCs/IPs shall be relocated without their free and prior informed consent nor through any
means other than eminent domain.
22. The collective right to use everything within the domain/land is limited only to the recognized
members of the ICCs/IP community. No migrants shall be allowed within the domain.
23. The Constitution of 1935 stipulated that the right of suffrage would be extended to women, only
if 30,000 women voted in its favor during a national plebiscite.
24. Women’s right to vote was granted in 1937.
25. There is no general discrimination of girls in education thus there is no marked differences that
exist in the educational status of Filipino women and men.

IV. ENUMERATION
A. Role of government in relation to citizens (2)
B. Role of citizens to the state (5)
C. Ways by which a candidate is nominated for public office (5)
D. Institutions of direct democracy (4)
E. Kinds of pressures and pressure politics (4)
F. Methods of measuring Public Opinions (5)
G. Rights of the ICC/IPs to their ancestral lands (3)
H. Three laws/acts that serve as legal framework promoting gender equality. (3)
I. Three party list party in Bangsamoro. (3)

V. ESSAY:

Cite one contemporary issue in Philippine politics and discuss it briefly.

Prepared by :

Romeo C. De Guzman

Instructor III