Constitutional issues in freedom of information

By:

Mustafa, Faizan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Kanishka; 2003Description: 284 pISBN:

817395741

Subject(s):

Civil rights

DDC classification:

342.0853 MUS

Summary: 'Information' as a term has been derived from the Latin words 'formation' and 'form' which means giving shape to something and forming a pattern, respectively. Information adds something new to our awareness and removes vagueness of our ideas. Information is indeed power in the twenty-first century. Freedom of information which gives us a right to have information is certainly of great significance in today's world. James Madison rightly wrote in a latter to W.T. Barry that "knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."

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'Information' as a term has been derived from the Latin words 'formation' and 'form' which means giving shape to something and forming a pattern, respectively. Information adds something new to our awareness and removes vagueness of our ideas. Information is indeed power in the twenty-first century. Freedom of information which gives us a right to have information is certainly of great significance in today's world.

James Madison rightly wrote in a latter to W.T. Barry that "knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."

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