NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM (NSTP)

NSTP

● A program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the

youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing training in
any of its three (3) program components.

Components of NSTP
Re - Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
Li - Literacy Training Service (LTS)
C - Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)

HISTORY & LEGAL BASIS OF NSTP

● President Manuel L. Quezon

● The National Defense Act of 1935 No. 1 (Commonwealth Act No. 1)
● Passed by the Philippine National Assembly on December 21, 1935
● To create an independent Philippine Army
● President Ferdinand E. Marcos (1980)
● Presidential Decree (P.D.) 1706 – National Service Law
● Compulsory National Service For Filipino Citizens
● President Corazon C. Aquino (1986-1987)
● Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC)

NSTP ACT OF 2001

● In response to public clamor for reforms in the Reserved Officers Training Corps
(ROTC) Program. This act affirms that the prime duty of the government shall be to
serve and protect its citizens.
● Mark Welson Chua - a student of the University of Santo Tomas whose death is
widely believed to be linked to his exposé of anomalies in the ROTC Unit of the
 university. His death became the channel for the passage of Republic Act 9163 or the
"National Service Training Program (NSTP)“ Law.

GOAL & OBJECTIVE OF NSTP

● To Promote and Integrate Values Education; Transformational Leadership; and

Sustainable Social Mobilization For Youth Development, Community Building,
National Renewal, and Global Solidarity
● To Promote and Protect the Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Intellectual, and Social Well
Being of the Youth.

NSTP GRADUATES?

● CWTS AND LTS

● shall belong to the National Reserve Corps (NSRC)
● could be tapped by the State for literacy and civic welfare activities, especially
in times of calamities.
● ROTC
● shall form part of the Citizen Armed Force.
SUMMARY

● To train and teach students to acquire various principles that will be helpful in the
development of their life and the community.
● This program is so beneficial for it is one way for the students to learn and to become
well-disciplined and effective.

NSTP 1
Lesson 2: The Philippine Constitution

What is Constitution?

● It refers to “that body of rules and maxims in accordance with which the powers of
sovereignty are habitually exercised.”

Section 4, Article II, 1987 Constitution

● The prime duty of the Government is to serve and protect the people.
● The Government may call upon the people to defend the Senate.
● In fulfillment thereof, all citizens may be required, under conditions provided by law,
to render personal, military or civil service.

What is the Constitution of the Philippines?

● The Constitution of the Philippines may be defined as that written instrument by

which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined
and by which these powers are distributed among the several departments or branches
for their safe and useful exercise for the benefit of the people.

Citizenship

● Is the state of being a member of a particular social, political, or national community.

● Citizenship status carries with it both rights and responsibilities.

Who are the citizens of the Philippines?

● Section 1 of the Philippine Constitution provides that the following are citizens of the
Philippines:
1. Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution; Naturalization
2. Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the Philippines; Birth
3. Those born before January 17, 1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine
Citizenship upon reaching the age of majority; Election
4. Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.

Active Citizenship
 ● The philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community
through economic participation, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life
for all citizens.
● An active citizen is a volunteer, consulted citizen/view-giver, good neighbor,
community group member, community activist and a citizen governor.
● Active citizens help make the community a good place to work and live and help
make the life of people around them lighter.

Duties and Obligations of Citizens

● To be loyal to the Republic.

● To defend the state.
● To contribute to the development and welfare of the state.
● To uphold the Constitution and obey the laws.
● To cooperate with duly constituted authorities.
● To exercise rights responsibility and with due regard for the rights of others.
● To engage in gainful work.
● To register and vote.

Human Rights

● Are rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.

● Are universal and inalienable, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

● as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that
every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in
mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and
freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their
universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of
Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their
jurisdiction.
● Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are
endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood.
● Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other
status.
 ● Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political,
jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a
person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under
any other limitation of sovereignty.
● Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
● Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade
shall be prohibited in all their forms.
● Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
● Article 6: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the
law.
● Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to
equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any
discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
● Article 8: Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national
tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or
by law.
● Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
● Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an
independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations
and of any criminal charge against him.
● Article 11: (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed
innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all
the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or
omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the
time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was
applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

● Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
 Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or
attacks.
● Article 13: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within
the borders of each State.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own,
and to return to his country.

● Article 14: (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum
from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions

genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.

● Article 15: (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right
to change his nationality.

● Article 16: (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race,
nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled
to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent
of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society
and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

● Article 17: (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association
with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

● Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this
right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in
community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.
 ● Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
● Article 20: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and
association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

● Article 21: (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country,
directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his
country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government;
this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and
equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

● Article 22: Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is
entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in
accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social
and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his
personality.
● Article 23: (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just
and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay
for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable
remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and
supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the
protection of his interests.

● Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation
of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
 ● Article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and
medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of
unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in
circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and

assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social
protection.

● Article 26: (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in
the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory.
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher
education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human

personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It
shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious
groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall
be given to their children.

● Article 27: (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

● Article 28: Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights
and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
● Article 29: (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full
development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only
to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due
recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just
requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the United Nations.

● Article 30: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State,
group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the
destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Preamble of the 1987 Philippine Constitution

● “We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to
build a just and humane society and establish a Government that shall embody our
ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our
patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence
and democracy under the rule of law and regime of truth, justice, freedom, love,
equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.”

The basic values of the Filipino People

● We can be good citizens of the Republic if we are to adhere to the basic values
enshrined and stipulated in Preamble of our 1987 Philippine Constitution.
● These are unity, patriotism, faith in Almighty God, respect for life, respect for law and
Government, work, truth, justice, freedom, love equality, peace, promotion of
common, concern for the environment, and order.

● White- stands for peace and purity.

● White Triangle- stands for equality and the Katipunan organization.
● Three Stars- represents Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
 ● The Sun- represents independence and its eight rays represent the eight provinces who
led the uprising against Spanish rule.
● Blue- stands for patriotism and justice.
● Red- stands for valor and the blood split freedom and independence.
● The period from May 28 to June 12 of each year is declared as Flag Days.

Pledge to the Flag/Panunumpa sa Watawat