Citizens Committee Engineers Public Welfare Civic Advocacy Permissibility
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Public_Welfare_Civic_Advocacy_Permissibility
Properties
Instance of
ProductQualityStandardsLegislativeAdvocacyPublicWelfarePermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProductQualityStandardsLegislativeAdvocacyPublicWelfarePermissibilityObligation
Case context
Engineer A co-founded the Citizens Committee for Quality Products, made public statements, wrote to newspapers, and testified before legislative bodies in support of minimum quality standards for commercial products.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A and Citizens Committee engineer members
Obligation statement
Engineer A and Citizens Committee colleagues were entitled under the ethics code to organize and participate in civic advocacy for minimum legislative product quality standards, provided they acted in good faith and believed they were serving the public interest.
Temporal scope
Throughout the Citizens Committee advocacy activities
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Welfare Paramount Invoked by Citizens Committee Engineers
Source Evidence
Source text
It is basic to the entire concept of a profession that its members will devote their interests to the public welfare, as is made abundantly clear in Section 2 and Section 2(a) of the Code.
Text references
It is basic to the entire concept of a profession that its members will devote their interests to the public welfare, as is made abundantly clear in Section 2 and Section 2(a) of the Code.
This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers.
What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Citizens Committee Engineers Public Welfare Civic Advocacy Permissibility" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case82:Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Employment_Jeopardy_Acceptance_Civic_Advocacy ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case82:Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Employment_Jeopardy_Acceptance_Civic_Advocacy ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A co-founded the Citizens Committee for Quality Products, made public statements, wrote to newspapers, and testified before legislative bodies in support of minimum quality standards for commercial products." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A and Citizens Committee engineer members" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Product Quality Standards Legislative Advocacy Public Welfare Permissibility Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A and Citizens Committee colleagues were entitled under the ethics code to organize and participate in civic advocacy for minimum legislative product quality standards, provided they acted in good faith and believed they were serving the public interest." ;
proeth:sourcetext "It is basic to the entire concept of a profession that its members will devote their interests to the public welfare, as is made abundantly clear in Section 2 and Section 2(a) of the Code." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the Citizens Committee advocacy activities" ;
proeth:textreferences "It is basic to the entire concept of a profession that its members will devote their interests to the public welfare, as is made abundantly clear in Section 2 and Section 2(a) of the Code.",
"This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers.",
"What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 82 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:59:43.313721"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 82 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
82
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00
First case
82
Generated
2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00
Attributed to
Case 82 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:59:43.313721
Generated by
ProEthica Case 82 Extraction