Government Secrecy in the United States
Government Secrecy
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled GOVERNMENT SECRECYThe first amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press are essential to democratic rule because they protect the right to communicate and receive information needed for self-government. Self-government might seem to require that “the public and the press”
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