promotion of respect, dialogue and reciprocal tolerance with a view to peace and to national cohesion. Article 37 Public property shall be sacred and inviolable. Each Beninese citizen must respect it scrupulously and protect it. Any act of sabotage, vandalism, corruption, diversion, dilapidation or illegal enrichment shall be suppressed under conditions provided by law. Article 38 The state shall protect the rights and legitimate interests of Beninese citizens in a foreign country. Article 39 Foreigners in the territory of the Republic of Benin shall have the benefit of the same rights and liberties as the Beninese citizens, and this under the conditions determined by law. They must conform to the Constitution and to the laws and regulations of the Republic. Article 40 The state has the duty to assure the diffusion and the teaching of the Constitution, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981 as well as all of the international instruments duly ratified and relative to human rights. The state must integrate the rights of the individual into the programs of literacy and of teaching in the various scholastic and university academic cycles and into all the educational programs of the Armed Forces, of the Public Security Forces and of comparable categories. The state must equally assure the diffusion and teaching of these same rights in the national languages by all the means of mass communication, and particularly by radio and television. TITLE III: EXECUTIVE POWER ... Article 58 The President of the Republic, after consultation with the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Constitutional Court, shall be able to take the initiative of the referendum on any question relative to the promotion of and the reinforcement of human rights … … Article 66 In case of a coup d’état, or a putsch, of aggression by mercenaries or of any action by force whatsoever, any member of a constitutional agency shall have the right and the duty to make an appeal by any means in order to re-establish the constitutional legitimacy, including recourse to existing agreements of military or defence co-operation. In these circumstances for any Beninese to disobey and organise himself to put a check to the illegitimate authority shall constitute the most sacred of rights and the most imperative of duties. ... TITLE V: THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT Article 114 The Constitutional Court shall be the highest jurisdiction of the state in constitutional matters. It shall be the judge of the constitutionality of the law and it shall guarantee the fundamental human rights and the public liberties. It shall be the regulatory body for the functioning of institutions and for the activity of public authorities. ... Article 117 The Constitutional Court shall rule obligatorily on: ...

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