The modern presumption that, where individual citizens are sovereign, the workings of government, including its paperwork, are to be transparently available to everyone is just that — quite modern. And it's still not settled, as records debates over the last half-century (the latest being Hilary Clinton's State emails) demonstrates.
When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?
Hillary Clinton is hardly the first government officer to try to keep her correspondence private. The fight over her emails echoes battles that stretch back to the inception of government archives.
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Who's all them funny people/men in the red dresses, are they getting married to Peter?
Peter's hareem.