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U
r u g u a y 1. CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK The National Constitution of 1967, in effect since February
that year (amended on August 24, 1966, and passed the following
November) in Section II on ?Rights, duties and guarantees? stipulates
in Article 29: ?The communication of thought by word, in private
writings or published in the press or by any other means of dissemination
is entirely free in every respect, without need for prior censorship,
the author and, as applicable, the printer or broadcaster, being
responsible under the law for any abuses that may be committed.? According to Article 72, ?The enumeration of rights, duties
and guarantees set out in the Constitution does not exclude the
others that are inherent in human nature or that derive from the
republican form of government.? Those rights relating to individuals and the powers and duties
of the authorities not mentioned in the Constitution will not stop
being applied through lack of enabling legislation but will substituted
by the bases of analogous laws, the general principles of law and
the doctrines generally accepted as a result of what is set out
in Article 333 of the Constitution.
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