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Article 18
The National Legal Service is a duty of honor. Its accomplishment does not infringe
the position of work of the citizen or the exercise of the political rights of the citizen.
• Right to health care
• Reference to fraternity/solidarity
Article 19
The State recognizes and organizes for all individuals the right to the protection of
health from their conception through the organization of free public health care,
which gratuitousness results from the capacity of the national solidarity.
• Right to found a family
• Right to transfer property
Article 20
The family, natural and fundamental element of the society, is protected by the
State. All individuals have the right to found a family and to transmit by inheritance
their personal assets.
• Rights of children guaranteed
• State support for children
Article 21
The State assures the protection of the family for its free development as well as that
of the mother and the child through a legislation and the appropriate social
institutions.
Article 22
The State engages itself to take the necessary measures in view to assure the
intellectual development of every individual, without other limitation than the
aptitudes of each one.
Article 23
• Rights of children guaranteed
Every child has the right to instruction and to education under the responsibility of
the parents within respect for their freedom of choice.
The State engages itself to develop professional training.
• Compulsory education
• Free education
Article 24
The State organizes a public education, gratuitous and accessible to all. Primary
education is obligatory for all.
Article 25
The State recognizes the right to private education and guarantees this freedom of
education under reserve of the equivalence of the conditions of education in the
matters of hygiene, of morality and of the level of training established by the law.
These establishments of private education are submitted to a fiscal regime within
the conditions established by the law.
• Right to culture
• Reference to science
• Right to enjoy the benefits of science
Madagascar 2010
Article 26
All individuals have the right to participate in the cultural life of the community, in
scientific progress and in the well-being resulting from them.
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