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Timeline of US legislative documents and data
1844 The message, “What hath God wrought?” sent later by “Morse Code” from the old Supreme Court chamber in the United States Capitol to Samuel Morse’s partner in Baltimore, officially opened the completed telegraph line of May 24, 1844. (1) 1845 The private firm, Little, Brown, and Company, began publishing the Statutes at Large under […]
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Transparency and liberty
John McGinnis has some kind words for work I oversee at the Cato Institute in a recent blog post of his entitled: “The Internet–A Technology for Encompassing Interests and Liberty.” As he points out, the information environment helps determine outcomes in political systems because it controls who is in a position to exercise power. The […]
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