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Governmental Secrecy and the Founding Fathers: A Study in Constitutional Controls

by Daniel N. Hoffman
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Overview

Hoffman traces the origins of executive secrecy and the legal and political efforts to control it since the Federalist era, focusing on the Jay Treaty Struggle, the XYZ Affair and the 1798 Sedition Act.

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Book Details

Published
December 10, 1981
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pages
354
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780313221668

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