and the regulations of the Republic.
SUB-TITLE II: OF THE ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS AND
DUTIES
Article 17- The State protects and guarantees the exercise of the rights that assure the
individual the integrity and the dignity of their person, and their full physical, intellectual
and moral development.
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.
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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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.
The State, assures, with the participation of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities,
the promotion and the protection of the national cultural patrimony as well as of
scientific, literary and artistic production.
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