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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Freedom of Expression

Adrienne Stone

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
April 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
International human rights treaties — Bill of rights — Censorship — Freedom of assembly — Freedom of association — Freedom of expression — Freedom of the press

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Freedom of expression is protected in the domestic constitutions of all democratic states. Its ubiquity reflects its status as belonging to the core ‘first generation’ or civil and political rights which are central to the liberal political tradition (liberalism). 2 Most commonly, freedom of expression is protected expressly in one or more of the provisions of a constitution. 3 When it comes to textual form, there is considerable variation among freedom of expression provisions. Although the term ‘expression’ is most commonly the subject of the protection, some...
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