Equally important is Article 48 of the constitution, assuring freedom of the press.
The journalist, now 33, penned a tongue-in-cheek open letter to Edward Snowden on his arrival in Moscow – an extended welcome assuring him that the security services were monitoring every conversation leaving "nothing here in Russia to expose".
In a pre-Easter message, Villiers also pledged that there would be no amnesties for any more "on the run" IRA members after the freeing of the IRA Hyde Park bomb suspect John Downey due to a "comfort letter" from Tony Blair's government assuring him and others they would not prosecuted for past crimes.
But it's not until early February 2012 that conclusive proof is proffered in the form of an email, dated the day after the royal wedding, addressed to James Murdoch and News International executives, assuring them the "device" is now sitting in "KM's cervix" and is under 24-hour surveillance.
A previous speaker had cribbed Obama in assuring the crowd that "Yes, we can rid Uganda of homosexuals.
He calls for an 80% tax on incomes above $500,000 a year in the US, assuring his readers there would be neither a flight of top execs to Canada nor a slowdown in growth, since the outcome would simply be to suppress such incomes.
The emergence of the letter assuring Downey he was no longer wanted caused his trial to collapse at the Old Bailey in London on Tuesday.
She'd still send Christmas cards and ring occasionally, assuring them her career was going well.
Similarly Timothy Roemer, the US ambassador to India, went into damage-control mode by assuring the billions of Khan fans worldwide that "Many Americans love his films".
John Downey, the IRA man accused of the 1982 attack including the deaths of four soldiers, walked free after his legal team produced a letter assuring him that no police force in the UK was seeking his arrest.
Crucially, it could be pushed away from assuring quality and standards, and into the broader politics of educational regulation.
