法治视野下公务员的言论自由探析

Freedom of Speech on the Rule of Law under the Perspective of Civil Servants

言论自由是一项基本人权,但作为公务员这一特殊群体,其言论自由与一般公民的言论自由相比具有特殊之处。随着我国民主法治进程的不断加快,在法治视野下如何对公务员的言论自由进行科学规制逐渐引起重视。民主法治国家要求公务员的言论自由既要受到宪法和法律的保障也要受到一定的限制。笔者认为法治视野下公务员言论自由的行使应受到公务员与所在机关的法律关系、公务员忠诚义务、公务员中立义务等因素的限制。同时对公务员言论自由的限制理应符合比例原则、双阶理论和双轨理论等标准的约束。

Freedom of expression is a basic human fight, but as a special group of the civil more and more attention. Democracy and rule of law requirements of the civil freedom of speech should not only by the protection of the Constitution and the law must also be subject to certain restrictions. The author thinks that the view of rule of law of freedom of speech should be civil servants exercising civil servants and where the organs of the legal relationship, the duty of loyalty of civil servants, civil servants neutral duty constraints. At the same time to civil servants, the restriction of freedom of speech should be in line with the principle of proportionality, double order theory and dual theory standard constraint.