Word: safeguards
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DISCLOSURE. The best safeguard against promiscuous giving or spending is a "sunshine law" that requires total disclosure of the sources of funds. The 1971 campaign law calls for the name, address and occupation of any person who gives more than $100 to a candidate, and the new Senate bill forbids cash donations greater than $100. In addition, the 1971 law requires periodic reports on contributions, plus supplementary reports 15 and five days before elections...
...fears, While most countries reacted to the news of impending communist revolution disdainfully, Turkey and Portugal were the only NATO nations that viewed matters from the same perspective as the U.S. The United States claimed to be interested in the security of NATO. Yet NATO is ostensibly designed to safeguard freedom and democracy, concepts that didn't jibe with the interests of a totalitarian regime. The coup violated both NATO's humanitarian principles and its strategic military commitments. The defense of its Mediterranean wing certainly wasn't bolstered in 1967, when one fourth of the Greek armed forces was purged...
...Michigan court correct in doubting the possibility of any freely given consent by an inmate? Or have the Iowa judges successfully devised rules that safeguard the volunteer? Either way it is clear that the question of consent is crucial-for both legal and pragmatic reasons. Electric-shock therapy for sex offenders, for instance, is plainly offensive and probably illegal if imposed on anyone who does not want it. On the other hand, there is some preliminary indication that the treatment may work -to the benefit of both the prisoner and society. If the voluntary program is ended, inmates who really...
...advisers for offenses both criminal and noncriminal; significantly, the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors does not derive from normal English criminal law. Thus, Parliament impeached various magistrates for misleading their Sovereign, a Lord Chancellor for putting the seal of trust to an ignominious treaty, an admiral for neglecting the safeguard of the sea, and others for appointing bad men to office, taking bribes, purchasing jobs, subverting the fundamental laws, delaying justice. When the Americans adopted the impeachment process, they made it plain that impeachment was designed to cleanse an office, and not to impose punishment. Impeachment, wrote Justice Joseph Story...
...treaty states in its preamble that "the parties are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule...