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The Freedom Of Information Act And The Ecology Of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer
The Freedom Of Information Act And The Ecology Of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
The Framers’ approbation of a unitary executive rested in important part on the belief that the unitary executive’s actions were apt to be more “narrowly watched and readily suspected” by an informed public opinion than those of a plural executive. Yet the body of the Constitution provides no right to public information. What the Constitutional text omits, the last generation has embedded as a part of modern constitutional practice in the Freedom of Information Act. Some critics have deplored FOIA as a “romantic” effort at “self help oversight”, superfluous in light of the checks and balances of divided government. Others …