Freedom of Information : Basic Tenets and Issues
Contents: Preface. 1. Information: what, why and how? 2. Role of communication. 3. Censorship and right to information. 4. Main pillars for ensuring freedom of information. 5. Right to information as human right. 6. Why official secrecy? 7. Statutory measures: a global view. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
In fact, there are two main aspects of freedom: being ruled and ruling in turn, since everyone is equal according to number, not merit, and to be able to live as one pleases. But one factor of liberty is to govern and be governed in turn, for the popular principle of justice is to have equality according to number, not worth, and if this is the principle of justice prevailing, the multitude must of necessity be sovereign and the decision of the majority must be final and must constitute justice, for they say that each of the citizens ought to have an equal share, so that is results that in democracies the poor are more powerful than the rich, because there are more of them and whatever is decided by the majority is sovereign. This then is one mark of liberty which all democrats set down as a principle of the constitution. The present work is a modest attempt at elucidating all salient issues in synthesised manner. (jacket)
In fact, there are two main aspects of freedom: being ruled and ruling in turn, since everyone is equal according to number, not merit, and to be able to live as one pleases. But one factor of liberty is to govern and be governed in turn, for the popular principle of justice is to have equality according to number, not worth, and if this is the principle of justice prevailing, the multitude must of necessity be sovereign and the decision of the majority must be final and must constitute justice, for they say that each of the citizens ought to have an equal share, so that is results that in democracies the poor are more powerful than the rich, because there are more of them and whatever is decided by the majority is sovereign. This then is one mark of liberty which all democrats set down as a principle of the constitution. The present work is a modest attempt at elucidating all salient issues in synthesised manner. (jacket)
