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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

- Samuel Alito

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

- Alan Feduccia

It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

- Alex Thiermann