right to freedom of conscience

Section 15 states that everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion.

Every person shall have the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion, which shall include academic freedom in institutions of higher learning.

An edict signed at Romorantin in May 1560 was the beginning of the right to freedom of conscience in France.

Although Article 24.1 of the 1982 Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of conscience, it does not extend to the right to conscientious objection to military service.

The basic question has been whether Article 25 of the same constitution which guarantees "right to freedom of conscience and free professions, practice and propagation of religion."

The right to propagate, however, does not include the right to convert another individual, since it would amount to an infringement of the other's right to freedom of conscience.

The State Law on Religious Freedom governs religion and the licensing of religious groups, and it provides for the right to freedom of conscience and religion in Bosnia.

Hungary's new "Law on the Right to Freedom of Conscience and Religion, and on Churches, Religions and Religious Communities" was enacted July 12, 2011 and it recognizes only 14 religious groups.

The Bill of Rights included in the Constitution, according to the International Bar Association, explicitly protects "the rights to life, dignity, equality and the right to freedom of conscience, belief, thought and religion and to academic freedom."

Akhmetov told the parliament he wanted continuity in policy despite the change in government, and said that Kazakhstan is "building a state governed by the rule of law where everyone has the right to freedom of conscience and expression, but that everyone should work within the law."

Thus, although he does not enumerate a catalogue of rights it seems clear that it is chiefly the conventional political and civil liberties, including a right to freedom of conscience, that are associated with the traditional doctrine of liberalism which would qualify as rights in the strong sense.

Zagorin's last survey work, How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West (2003), returned to questions regarding individual belief ranged against those who claimed the right to enforce religious conformity by force if necessary, tracing the emergence of a particular and contested view of a right to freedom of conscience.

The constitutional question put before the Court was whether the Act infringed the right to freedom of conscience and religion, if so, whether it is justified under section 1 of the Charter, and whether the Act was intra vires (within) Parliament's criminal power under section 91(27) of the Constitution Act, 1867.