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Freedom of information....which amendment is that :P ?
by akditer 8y ago
Freedom of information....which amendment is that :P ?
- geoffpado 8y agoThis is France we're talking about, so it's not amendments, but rather Article XV of the "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_the_Man_and_of_the_Citizen_of_1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_t... ("The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration."), which is used as the basis for actual legislation today: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/countries/france http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/countrie...
- akditer 8y agoI am sorry, I am not french. I thought this is some stupid American law which every Americans expect the rest of the world to know.
- pjc50 8y agoArticle 34, apparently, although I can't really see how it's interpreted from the text. http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/english/constitution/constitution-of-4-october-1958.25742.html http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionne... http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/countries/france http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/countrie...