It is enshrined in South Korea’s constitution, which states that the president is duty-bound to work toward peaceful reunification.

“I am therefore duty-bound to reject your recusal request,” he wrote.

We tried to be faithful to that, not out of duty-bound sense but because it helped to create the feeling of actual humans watching/recording/present at all times.

In such circumstances, the court “not only has broad discretion, but is in fact duty-bound to take corrective action,” they wrote.

Hence, federal jurists are duty-bound to focus their attention on what Kavanaugh said he didn’t care about: the facts of “the here and now.”