| （School of Physical Education，Soochow University，Suzhou 215021，China） Abstract: By means of literature retrieval, mathematical statistics and logic analysis, the authors retrieved and ana-lyzed 187 written constitutions worldwide, and found that 41 texts wrote sport clauses in the civil right chapter, taking a percentage of 55.4% (more than half) in 74 countries whose constitutions included sport clauses, a percentage of 21.9 in 187 constitution written countries worldwide, and a percentage of 21.4% (more than 1/5) in total 192 countries worldwide, which indicated that at least 1/5 of countries worldwide considered sport as a right, while more than half of the countries whose constitutions had already included sport clauses thought that sport should be treated as a right. The authors carried out a detailed comparative analysis based on the belonging continents, ages, country nature, languages, contents, other social areas and the intersection of social and cultural rights with respect to these 41 texts.
Key words: sport law；constitution；civil right chapter；sport right |
