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  2. John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton - Wikipedia

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    The only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, [5] and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet [6] (who succeeded to the baronetcy and estates held by another branch of the Acton family in Shropshire in 1791), Acton was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, from 1837 to 1869.

  3. Corruption Eradication Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Corruption Eradication Commission (Indonesian: Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi), abbreviated as KPK, is an Indonesian government agency established to prevent and fight corruption in the country. [2] The KPK was created in 2003 during the Megawati presidency due to high corruption in the Post-Suharto era.

  4. Adagia - Wikipedia

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    Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository [ 1 ] : 102 of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1).

  5. Anti-corruption - Wikipedia

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    Anti-corruption (or anticorruption) comprises activities that oppose or inhibit corruption.Just as corruption takes many forms, anti-corruption efforts vary in scope and in strategy. [1]

  6. Ignorantia juris non excusat - Wikipedia

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    In law, ignorantia juris non excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"), [1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat ("ignorance of law excuses no one"), [2] is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.

  7. Salus populi suprema lex esto - Wikipedia

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    Salus publica suprema lex esto in the Swiss Parliament.. Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin: "The health [welfare, good, salvation, felicity] of the people should be the supreme law"; "Let the good [or safety] of the people be the supreme [or highest] law"; [1] or "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law") is a maxim or principle found in Cicero's De Legibus (book III, part III, sub.

  8. Corruption in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    While hard data on corruption is difficult to collect, corruption in Indonesia is clearly seen through public opinion, collated through surveys as well as observation of how each system runs.

  9. Nemo iudex in causa sua - Wikipedia

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    The Latin brocard nemo judex in causa sua has its origins in the Roman legal tradition and is codified within the Corpus Juris Civilis.In 376 AD, an imperial decree established the principle that "no one shall decide his own case or interpret the law for himself" (neminem sibi esse iudicem vel ius sibi dicere debere) (Code 3.5.1).