Constitutional and Legal Development of the Freedom of Public Meetings in Jordan

Abstract

Freedom of meetings, like other public freedoms, requires a democratic climate and an advanced cultural and economic level in order to achieve the desired results and prevent the public authorities from attacking them. Based on the awareness of the Jordanian State of the importance of freedom of meetings in achieving democratic rule, and communicating the opinions and demands of citizens to the public authorities in the State. In Jordan’s successive constitutions, it ensured the assertion of this freedom as a Constitutional right guaranteed to Jordanians. It also referred the organization of its exercise to its regular laws. In response to that, the Jordanian legislator issued a number of successive public meeting laws that imposed restrictions on freedom of meetings on the one hand, and clarified the procedures for exercising and organizing them, on the other hand.

Keywords: Constitution, laws, public meetings, freedom, Constitutional development

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/100-03

Publication date:August 31^st 2020