Of Legislation To Protect The Right To Know

Right to know the rule of law in contemporary society is a fundamental human rights, is the world's constitutions, laws and international conventions and the general recognition of the focus of regulation, it is mainly through the open system of government information to be achieved. Of this paper is to narrow the right to know, that citizens, legal persons and other organizations access to information on the Government the right to know。This paper first defines the meaning the right to know and the right to know the legislative situation in our country, from the right to know is not recognized in the Constitution, "Government Information Openness" shortcomings, the current "Secrets Act", "file method" on right to know the constraints described in four major areas of our right to know legislation to protect the existing problems. Sweden is known as the birthplace of the right to know the system, the United States is the most complete construction of the current system of legislation to protect the right to know. Based on the Swedish and the United States the right to know legislation to protect the investigation and draw, from the right to know the Constitution, "the govern ment information disclosure regulations," the specific content of the sound, as well as supporting the right to know law "Secrets", "file method" of amendments to the four, the proposed legislation to protect the Improvement of the right to know of.