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Police officers have a sworn duty to uphold the law.

What is very likely is that a great majority won't uphold their end of the bargain.

Just like I can't sign away my obligation not to commit a crime, they can't sign away their obligation to uphold the law.

Rather, talk about academic freedom, a principle -- though not a legal one -- that Yale ostensibly seeks to uphold.

The ultimate power of the government is that, in the end, to uphold the legitimacy of the law it has the power to kill people.

You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight "deviant uses of the internet" to register domains through them.

LessWrong's focus on optimizing your life is so great that whenever I failed at something or didn't uphold something I said I would do I felt bad about it.

I'm not only saddened, but disappointed that a system that is supposed to protect and uphold what is just and right can be so much like me when I made the same shameful mistake.

We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.

We can criticise both the Patriotic Act and the state of emergency in dictatorships and hold them to different standards or criticise them in different tones based on the degree of digression as compared to the values they claim they uphold and our own values.

It seems to me that your 'ends justify the means' mentality conflicts with your sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, and I can only hope history will look back on this whole endeavor as a dark stain in American history, and view you like a McCarthy of our time.