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Definition: Public Trust |
Public TrustNoun1. A trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Public TrustSynonym: charitable trust (n). (additional references) |
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A famous example of the betrayal of public trust is in the story of Julius Caesar, who was killed by Roman senators who believed they had to act drastically to preserve the republic against his (alleged) monarchical ambitions.
Breaches of public trust:
Watergate, corporate accounting scandals, Whitewater , Lewinsky scandal, Iran-contra, Covert military operations,
consequences: Mussolini,
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Public trust."
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| Author | Quotation |
Grover Cleveland | Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. |
Thomas Jefferson | When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Mexico | Some analysts believe that this is, at least in part, explained by increased crime reporting due to greater public trust in the judicial system (prior to the current administration, it was estimated that only 42 percent of crimes were reported). (references) |
Human Rights | Malaysia | However, many observers believe judicial independence has improved since Tan Sri Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah was appointed Chief Justice in December 2000. Immediately following his appointment, Chief Justice Dzaiddin spoke publicly about the importance of restoring public trust in the judiciary and instituted a rotational case-assignment system to ensure the impartiality of judges hearing any given case. (references) |
Mexico | He urged the Administration to expedite its reform agenda if it hopes to regain public trust in judicial institutions. (references) | |
Political Rights | Philippines | The Senate impeachment trial of President Estrada on charges of bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and culpable violation of the Constitution, was preempted on January 17 after a majority of senators voted to block the introduction of certain items of evidence. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Business is a public trust and must adhere to national standards in the conduct of its affairs. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This Administration has set strict standards for personal financial disclosure and conflict of interest avoidance by high Federal officials, to elevate the level of public trust in the government. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The airwaves are a public trust, and broadcasters also have to help us in this effort to strengthen our democracy. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doctrine public trust | 6 |
enterprise private public trust | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-l-p-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: culprits. | |
-4 letters: culprit, cultist, publics, pursuit, subcult, turbits, upbuilt, upcurls, uptilts. | |
-5 letters: blurts, britts, bruits, bustic, bututs, citrus, cubist, cubits, cultus, cutups, lubric, lutist, piculs, public, purist, rictus, rustic, script, sculpt, strict, stript, tubist, tulips, turbit, upcurl, upstir, uptilt. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 75 62 6C 69 63 54 72 75 73 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P u b l i c   T r u s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0075 0062 006C 0069 0063 0054 0072 0075 0073 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50876878756925484878586 |
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