Transparency in government

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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis Brandeis

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Transparency in government

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

What Publicity Can Do Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Brandeis, Louis. "What Publicity Can Do." Harper's Weekly, 20 Dec. 1913.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know-but besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded, and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams

Read A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law at the National Archives website

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Transparency in government Preservation of freedom Freedom Political theory

Author

John Adams

Source

A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law Boston Gazette

Medium

Dissertation Newspaper

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1765 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Adams, John. "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law." Boston Gazette, 30 Sept. 1765.

Current Citation

Adams, John. "A Disseratation on the Canon and Feudal Law." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.