LIBERTY OF INSTRUCTION AND OF CONSCIENCE.
LIBERTY OF EXPRESSING OPINION.
§ 117.
1. Every person may within the limits of the law express his or her opinion by word, in writing, in print, by picture etc.
2. The same applies to legal persons within the limits of their competence.
3. No one shall suffer in the sphere of his work or employment for exercising this right.
§ 118.
Scientific research and the publication of its results, as well as art is free so far as it does not violate the penal code.
§ 119.
Public instruction shall be given so as not to be in conflict with the results of scientific investigation.
§ 120.
1. Private establishments for instruction and education are permitted to be set up only within the limits of the law.
2. The supreme authority and control over all instruction and education shall be in the hands of the State.
§ 121.
Liberty of conscience and religious creed is guaranteed.
§ 122.
All inhabitants of the Czechoslovak Republic enjoy in the same degree as the citizens of the Republic, the right to profess and exercise publicly and privately any creed, religion or faith whatsoever, so far as the exercise of the same is not in conflict with public law and order or with morality.
§ 123.
No one shall be compelled either directly or indirectly to take part in any religious rite or ceremony whatsoever, rights pertaining to paternal or guardian authority being nevertheless respected.
§ 124.
All religious confessions shall be equal before the law.
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