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  • Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

    "The media's lies poison our system" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.