constituteproject.org PDF generated: 23 May 2016, 16:14 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. • Right to health care • Reference to fraternity/solidarity 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. • Right to found a family • Right to transfer property 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. • Rights of children guaranteed • State support for children 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 • Rights of children guaranteed 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. • Compulsory education • Free education 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. • Right to culture • Reference to science • Right to enjoy the benefits of science Madagascar 2010 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. Page 8