Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments
Description:
Presidential claims of a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and
documents in the face of legislative demands have figured prominently, though
intermittently, in executive-congressional relations since at least 1792, when the president
Washington discussed with his cabinet how to respond to a congressional inquiry into
the military debacle that befell General St. Clair's expedition. Few such interbranch
disputes over access to information have reached the courts for substantive…
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Date:
September 21, 1999
Creator:
Rosenberg, Morton
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department