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Moralność publiczna jako przesłanka ograniczania wolności zgromadzeń
Public morality as a premise to restrict freedom of assembly

Author(s): Piotr Zacharczuk
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Comparative Law
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Wydział Prawa, Prawa Kanonicznego i Administracji
Keywords: freedom of assembly; public morality; moralność publiczna; wolność zgromadzeń; prawo o zgromadzeniach; ograniczenia wolności; wolność sumienia i religii; freedom of conscience and religion;

Summary/Abstract: Freedom of assembly may be also the subject of restrictions due to the need to protect public morality. Public morality is a premise for this freedom restricting under both international and national law. The research objective of the contribution is firstly, to show public morality as a premise of freedom of assembly restricting in the context of international and constitutional regulations and then, to show detailed statutory premises for interference with freedom of assembly included in the range of public morality. Although the possibilities for the freedom of assembly restricting due to the need to protect public morality are stipulated in the content of the ratified international agreements and also in the Constitution provisions, however statutory provisions being in force defining specific premises included in the range of public morality are also needed to restrict this freedom. Premises, which may constitute the legal basis for freedom of assembly restricting due to the need to protection of values included in public morality have been already specified in the content of some statutory regulations being in force. However, another statutory amendments allowing wider range of freedom of assembly restrictions due to the protection of public morality are required.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 333-364
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Polish