She has stood for privacy in the face of presumption by the media.
For example, people whose spouses have died and older adults who are single for whatever reason may feel excluded from social events intended for couples, or face the presumption that they have a (usually opposite-sex) partner ("And what does your husband do?").
In practice, the moves meant U.S. companies and researchers seeking a government permit to share technologies with foreign partners faced "a presumption of denial," says Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. "If you want to export something the answer is no unless you have a specific waiver or exemption".
The visitor is not faced with a presumption that "our" past is being told, nor is its narrative like the typical American one, showing how a people finally "made it" within the larger society.
The supreme leader, abetted by largely unelected councils, allowed just four out of more than 400 candidates to face the voters in the presumption that his populist incumbent protégé would stroll to victory.
On his first full day in office Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum ordering the heads of federal agencies to make available as much information as possible, urging them to act "with a clear presumption: in the face of doubt, openness prevails".
"The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails," reads a memorandum from Obama to the heads of executive departments and agencies.
"It flies in the face of everything we believe in: the presumption of innocence, the right to trial by jury," Mr. Colbert said.
"They can't face the reality that it challenges their presumption that this is a democratic system".
White scholars in African-American studies can face their own charges of Miss Anne-like presumption.
