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Title: | The Right of Association in Ghana and Tanzania |
Author: | Welch, Claude E. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 639-656 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Tanzania |
Subjects: | freedom of association Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/159636 |
Abstract: | The 'right of association' is enshrined in national constitutions, in international declarations and conventions, and in standard references to the liberties and privileges that citizens enjoy. Yet, as this article illustrates, restrictions on this right have been justified in the name of higher objectives. The right of association is a conditional or secondorder right, subordinated on occasion to more pressing rights. The strains of recent independence, regionalism, and labour unrest have brought about limits to the creation of association, whether political or non-political in nature. To illustrate the complexities of the argument - philosophical, cultural, and political in its overtones - the author examines legislative actions of Ghana and Tanzania up to 1965. Notes. |